India, April 30 -- A 23-year-old former employee of a Delhi-based pharmaceutical company that supplies medicines to the Army Hospital Research and Referral, Dhaula Kuan, has been arrested for misusing confidential company data to secure government tenders and for threatening the firm's officials with dire consequences.

A case was registered under sections 316 (4), 336 (4), 340 (2), 351 (2), and 61 (2) related to cheating, criminal breach of trust, forgery, extortion, and criminal intimidation at the Crime Branch on April 18.

A senior police officer said the key accused was arrested on April 25 and remanded for two days' police custody, adding that efforts are underway to trace the co-accused.

According to the FIR, seen by HT, the compl...