Nashik:
A former employee of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has told NDTV that team leaders at the company’s Nashik office used their desks not for official work but to exploit female colleagues mentally and morally. The claims describe a conversion syndicate and a sexual harassment network operating inside one of India’s largest IT firms.
The employee said the accused used vulgar language when summoning women to the team leaders’ desks.
“All the accused, especially their manner of communication, were completely vulgar. Girls were called to the TL desk and subjected to obscene language unimaginable in any professional or commercial office,” the former employee said.
The main accused, Tausif Attar, is alleged to have targeted Hindu religious practices. The witness said he repeatedly ridiculed female employees during festivals when they wore saris or bindis. “On all festivals, when we wore saris, he would question our attire and religion. As we left, he would make such remarks that we began to question how a team leader could mock another religion so much,” the employee told NDTV.
The former employee claimed that a colleague named Krishna used to wear a Rudraksha rosary to the office and later converted to Islam. Another revelation concerned Nida Khan, who is under investigation. The former employee said Khan was not an HR official but a process associate who was “mysteriously striving for a transfer and a domain change”.
The employee claimed that, in the name of security, staff were required to leave their phones, bags and even lunch boxes outside the office floor so that activities remained “off the record”.
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