Based on the complaint, the Cyber Cell has initiated an investigation.

The eSys group, which has its global back-up office at Rajiv Gandhi Information Technology Park, has also filed similar complaints with the police cyber crime cells of Singapore, USA, Korea, Germany and Switzerland.

Neeraj Chaudhary, constituted attorney of eSys Technologies, has stated in the complaint that the e-mails are “distinctly obscene, vulgar, abusive, intimidating, humiliating and defamatory in nature and generated with the sole aim of maligning the reputation of the company’s management all over India and the world”.

Officer-in-Charge of the cyber cell, Sub-Inspector Hardit Singh, said: “We have recorded a few statements of the people who received the e-mails. We are in the process of tracing the source and will track the server from which the mails were generated. We hope to nail the person soon.”

According to the complainant, the e-mails could be the outcome of eSys having opposed the illegal termination of its worldwide distributorship by Seagate Technologies Ltd, USA. However, the concerned police officers said it is premature to say anything on the issue at this stage.

As per the law, ‘cyber defamation’ means defamation carried out with the help of computers or the Internet. This includes publication of defamatory matter about someone on websites or sending of e-mails containing defamatory information.