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My co-author and I contacted N. Vikram Narayandas, Natukula Sainath, and the journal AJCSIT to have the illegitimate copy removed. The two plagiarizers apologized (with two apology emails that were identical to each other) and the pdf file of the paper was taken off the journal homepage with a notice that read "paper is deleted from the website due to extreme case of pliagrism [sic]." Had that been the end of the incident, this notice of plagiarism would not be here. The blatant copy of my work resurfaced within a few months of its removal. When I contacted AJCSIT again, they promised to remove the paper, but did not take any action.
The plagiarized copy had clearly been created by simply ripping out the text from the pdf file of the original paper and making small edits, mostly to section titles. The plagiarizers hadn't even bothered to write a fresh abstract. An interesting side effect of the efficient copy-and-paste approach to paper creation was that the number 224 appearing in the original paper silently transformed itself to 224 in the plagiarism paper, and this shows that AJCSIT is unlikely to have a meaningful review process. In fact, it was easy to confirm that a significant number of papers in AJCSIT were plagiarisms.
Note: The plagiarized version lists the name of its contact author as N. Vikram Narayanadas, with an extra a.