India, Feb. 18 -- IT giants Cognizant and Infosys are now fighting a US lawsuit wherein the former has accused the latter of allegedly being "caught red-handed" stealing trade secrets of its healthcare software TriZetto, according to a Mint report.

"Infosys was caught red-handed misappropriating TriZetto trade secrets that Infosys originally had access to through non-disclosure and access agreements (NDAAs)," the report quoted the 22-page court response as saying.

Cognizant also added that Infosys refused to allow an audit of Infosys's use of TriZetto information, which would prove its case, and asked TriZetto to "simply trust, based on nothing, that there had been no wrongdoing."

This legal dispute goes back to August 2024 when Cogniz...