India, April 17 -- Amid allegations of being the 'mastermind' in the Nashik IT firm sexual abuse scandal, TCS employee Nida Khan is set to seek anticipatory bail before the sessions court, her lawyer Baba Sayyed has said.

"It'll be done in a couple of days," Sayyed told HT earlier. Khan's name was riled in controversy in the alleged sexual abuse and religious coercion scandal at a BPO linked to TCS in Nashik. The case came to fore after an FIR was filed by Nashik police based on a 23-year-old BPO employee's complaint accusing her senior colleague Danish Shaikh of sexual harassment and conducting sexual relations under the false pretext of marriage.

The case was lodged under sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) including section...