You will have copyright since you can prove by date that you designed it first :)

Thank you so much Andrew Paul McKenzie Pegman for your response,

Yes that prove I have,

I am looking for suggestions and process to go through. Any more suggestions will be appreciated,

Write a new replacement proposal, but this time make it as brief and vague as allowed so that you can change the research question to suit as you go along. Keep it confidential, even from supervisors if possible, and post it to yourself for copyright (since the date will be recorded) :)

Hi Andrew Paul McKenzie Pegman ,

The process is already completed.

I had submitted my grant writeup for funding before it got copied by that fraud person and funded to that fraud person. So in this sense I have the primary copyright.

Being in the early stage of my career, before starting the grant writing, I asked the supervisor for help on how to write and if possible show me an old completed project copy as example, so that I will get an idea how to write, "-at that point-" I heard a intense lecture about ethics. Still I remember the words - "this is illegal, how dare you ask for such things".

So everything I did on my own and while writing the grant I kept it secret until submission, as working with such a person I assume this fraud intentions. I gave my day and night, did intense research-planning, properly planned everything to execute the proposal and prepared that grant writeup with all the details planned, as it was completely different from what that lab research direction. Also, working many years with that supervisor I knew that supervisor research intention and direction is completely different. Never in the direction where I am trying to focus. Many times I raise the topic keywords and that supervisor never wants to talk on that topic - as it was not an interesting topic to that supervisor.

Soon after submission, when I disclosed that I had submitted the grant, the supervisor threatened me to share the copy of the writeup. So being in that intense environment I had share the writeup copy. And then that fraud person copied the writeup. And the copied proposal got a high amount of funding. Not even asked me for my permission.

Now suggest to me what to do with this, I have all the information and dates to track, and have to collect some information from the funding agency. Looking for more suggestions, request you to kindly tag the researchers in this post. So that I can get other researchers' opinions too. Before taking all the necessary steps, I want to clear myself which steps to follow.

Should I inform the funding agency and other governing bodies? How to stop this fraud person.

You can complain to the dean of the department or find a different supervisor or even university. Try to move on as quick as possible. There's no point dealing with these psychopaths! :)

Thanks Andrew Paul McKenzie Pegman for all the suggestions, started doing something in this way,

Also, looking for more recommendation,

It's not worth fighting. Just go somewhere else where you're appreciated and keep everything confidential to you until publication :)

Hi Andrew Paul McKenzie Pegman ,

Thanks for this suggestions again. I did prefer to think in similar way, so I was stopping myself for long time, but now this fraud is doing some extra activity. I can guarantee with one line, this fraud person is full of drama characters with empty head in science research. Hardly came to lab 2 to 3 days in a year. Now giving me lectures that this fraud comes to lab regularly to do the resrach work.

And this fraud person is still not satisfied with my project copy and received funding. When I had written my next project with next mentor, this fraud person asked me for the project copy again, and said to me - so only will give me recommendation. So for this round of my application, I did not take this fraud's recommendation.

Now this fraud threatened me to blacklist and here is the one of many lines "in case of any conflict of interest I will take action".

---Now tell me what to do. To sit and cry, or to take action.

---And what I understood, this fraud's PhD supervisor Subrata Sau is also involved in this.

I am working on to contact and discuss this with higher authority, and then I will do the job what I did not completed before.

Hi Keith,

first of all, look for a lawyer and discuss with him/her the whole situation. Then write an official email to the Dean of the Faculty and to the Ethic Committee if any. Remind to cc your lawyer in each email you will exchange.

Contact immediately the research body that has funded the project with your lawyer in cc and provide them with all your original documents.

Move quickly. Time is essential when you deal with frauds.

Best of luck

R.

Hi Raffaella Bianucci,

Thank you for the direction, will start working on this.

Thanks again for your suggestion,

Hi Avijit,

Glad to have been of help.

Best of luck,

Raffaella