Wipro files case against former CFO Jatin Dalal who moved to Cognizant

IT major Wipro has filed a case against Jatin Dalal, its former chief financial officer (CFO), according to a report by the Times of India (TOI). Dalal was Wipro CFO since April 2015 and moved to Cognizant on December 1.

The charges of the plea are unclear but the report added that the case has been heard by a Bengaluru civil court from both the parties and the next hearing is scheduled for January 3. Dalal has sought that the matter be referred to arbitration.

Dalal was CFO of Wipro’s Global IT Business from 2011 to 2015 in Bengaluru, and before that served as Wipro’s UK head of finance for the Europe region and as the global finance head for the company’s Energy and Utilities,