Pune/Nashik, May 23 -- The Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Nashik city police on Friday filed the first charge sheet in connection with the alleged instances of sexual harassment, exploitation and religious conversion at a Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)-linked business process outsourcing (BPO) unit in Nashik. The 1,200-page charge sheet was filed before an additional sessions court in the first case registered at Deolali Camp police station in Nashik against TCS staffers Danish Sheikh, Tausif Attar, Nida Khan and corporator Matin Patel, said police in a statement. The charge sheet invoked Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) Sections 61(2) (criminal conspiracy), 64 (rape), 68 (sexual intercourse by a person in authority), 69 (sexual intercourse by employing deceitful means), 46 (abetment), 75 (sexual harassment), 318 (4) (cheating), 299 (hurting religious feelings), 249 (harbouring offender) along with provisions of the Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. Among other things, the charge sheet has cited WhatsApp screenshots and seized email trails of the victim and the accused, added police. A senior officer in the SIT, requesting anonymity, said the charge sheet included statements of 17 witnesses recorded before a judicial magistrate first class (JMFC) under Section 183 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita. "The investigators have accumulated various pieces of evidence against the accused during the course of investigation," the police statement said. Police have arrested a total of eight persons in nine FIRs including Nida Khan, Ashwini Chainani, Danish Shaikh, Tausif Attar, Raza Memon, Safi Sheikh, Asif Ansari, and Shahrukh Qureshi. All of them are in judicial custody, officials said. A total of nine FIRS were registered after eight complainants came forward to allege harassment at TCS's Nashik unit. The other eight cases were registered at a separate police station under various charges including criminal conspiracy, rape, abuse of authority, deliberate acts to outrage religious feelings among others. Matin Patel, a corporator of the AIMIM, is accused of harbouring Nida Khan at his house in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar in Marathwada region of Maharashtra when she was absconding. He could not be contacted for comments....