Legal Question in Business Law in India

Is there any ground of getting sued under this circumstance?

I was in a partnership and we together made a project which was his initial idea but I developed the plan and worked to make the software. However it was not started. Before that, our partnership dissolved because of some reasons. And the software was discarded, I did not hand it over to my partner.

I didn't hand him over the raw files of the project, but I said him (just as a friend) that in future he can take help of my email plan-charts (which I sent during our partnership) to start the project afresh if he wants. He said that this project will never be started again. I have a recording of the conversation too.

After a few months, the guy started another partnership with some other people and resumed the same project and copied exactly what I framed in my plan emails. He fell into a patent copyright infringement lawsuit due to this from another company.

Can he drag me into this lawsuit and can I be sued for this because of patent violation? Or am I legally safe?

I was not a part of the new partnership... Kindly advise

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