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MUMBAI: A contractual employee with the information technology (IT) department in Mantralaya was sacked after a complaint about his accessing computers from the revenue department without authorisation on Tuesday. The incident caused a data leak scare in Mantralaya.

The person, identified as Prakash Khedekar, was spotted by some housekeeping staff cleaning the building at 7 am on Tuesday. Officers said that the housekeeping staff asked him why he was in office so early and he said he was from information technology and was there on some work.

Soon after, a peon from the revenue department saw the IT man sitting with CPUs of more than 20 computers open in the department.

