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<blockquote data-quote="cruelsister" data-source="post: 339270" data-attributes="member: 7463">Purshupro- All of the above messages have provided excellent remedies, but let me approach your problem from the legal standpoint (my mother is a lawyer):&nbsp;Please note that the law in India is essentially the same (at its base) as British and American law. The person that filed the Police report is the Plaintiff, and in Court the Plaintiff has the Burden of Proof (semper necessitas probandi incumbit ei qui agit); the Court must assume that the Defendant (your Boss) did nothing wrong.&nbsp;As an example, assume you are a mechanic and a customer brings in an auto for you to change the oil. You don’t get to it by the end of the day and the customer says to forget it and picks up the auto. A few days later the head gasket blows and you are accused of messing this up. In this case you as the defendant are to be taken at your word (that you didn’t touch the Auto) because you have the Assumption of Innocence. The Plaintiff (the nasty customer) must prove that you worked on the Auto and either intentionally or unintentionally damaged it, which is almost impossible to do.&nbsp;So, in your specific case the only way the customer can get a judgment against your boss is by bringing the drive to someone else and getting a statement from them that timestamps were found on the drive proving some drive manipulation while it was in your care. If your company indeed did nothing to the drive, you have nothing to worry about.&nbsp;Never feed a troll.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="cruelsister, post: 339270, member: 7463"] Purshupro- All of the above messages have provided excellent remedies, but let me approach your problem from the legal standpoint (my mother is a lawyer): Please note that the law in India is essentially the same (at its base) as British and American law. The person that filed the Police report is the Plaintiff, and in Court the Plaintiff has the Burden of Proof (semper necessitas probandi incumbit ei qui agit[I]); [/I]the Court must assume that the Defendant (your Boss) did nothing wrong. As an example, assume you are a mechanic and a customer brings in an auto for you to change the oil. You don’t get to it by the end of the day and the customer says to forget it and picks up the auto. A few days later the head gasket blows and you are accused of messing this up. In this case you as the defendant are to be taken at your word (that you didn’t touch the Auto) because you have the Assumption of Innocence. The Plaintiff (the nasty customer) must prove that you worked on the Auto and either intentionally or unintentionally damaged it, which is almost impossible to do. So, in your specific case the only way the customer can get a judgment against your boss is by bringing the drive to someone else and getting a statement from them that timestamps were found on the drive proving some drive manipulation while it was in your care. If your company indeed did nothing to the drive, you have nothing to worry about. Never feed a troll. [/QUOTE]

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