I respect that you guys have made a decision to keep the details out of the public sphere, but if I may, I'd like to ask this one question.

I believe it was stated that this all got started because some influential guy got crossed and is now pulling strings to make your life bad.

Now given that we're on HN I can't help wondering if this is in any way startup related; Are we talking some kind Startup vs Big Corp situation here? If so I figure it might be of value and interest to the HN community to know at least this as an outline.

Should startups in India and elsewhere fear the same situation?

I know enough to be able to confidently say that this is a personal situation.

The only startup connection is that the person to whom it is happening is a person who would like to be heavily involved in startups, and whose talents would make that a natural thing to do once this situation is resolved.

India does have potential issues for startups around corruption, bribery, a slow legal system and so on. However I'm not aware of any shocking targeting of startups.

As Ben already wrote, start-ups have only peripherally to do with this case. I'm pretty sure the person of interest here would be more than psyched to be working for one (and has the talent to do so).

Start-ups in India have nothing to fear from the fall-out of this case or from similar circumstances, it is a very much private matter.

Start-ups are involved in a different way though: start-ups have provided some of the funds, start-ups are what brought us together and start-ups have enabled us to create a support network.

So in a way there are a lot of tie ins into the start-up world but only positive ones.