No complaints received from BPO staff: TCS
NASHIK, April 18 -- Four days after Tata Sons chairman N Chandrasekaran announced Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) had ordered a high-level probe into allegations of sexual harassment, religious coercion and other forms of harassment, on nine members of its staff at the Nashik BPO, in a statement issued on Friday, the company said that the IT major had not received any complaint about the alleged incidents currently under investigation by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Nashik police.
"While detailed reviews are still underway, a preliminary review of systems and records from the Nashik unit indicates that we have not received any complaints of the nature that are being alleged on either our ethics or POSH channels," read a statement issued by K Krithivasan, CEO and MD, TCS.
The statement underscored that Nida Khan, a process associate with the BPO, who was placed under suspension on April 9, did not hold any leadership role in the organisation, and indicated that Khan "who is being repeatedly mentioned in the press as HR manager of TCS, is neither an HR manager nor responsible for recruitment. She served as a process associate and did not hold any leadership responsibilities."
The statement also mentioned that the company had "engaged the services of expert teams from Deloitte and a prominent law firm Trilegal as independent counsel to the internal investigation led by Aarthi Subramanian, president and COO, TCS."
Apart from this, an oversight committee chaired by Keki Mistry, independent director of TCS, has been constituted, Krithivasan's statement read, adding the findings of the internal investigation will be presented to the committee, for review.
HT had reported on Friday that 26-year-old Khan who had been portrayed as the absconding mastermind at the TCS-run BPO in Nashik, was in Mumbai where she is expecting her first child. She joined the BPO in December 2021, and is not among its senior employees, her family members told HT.
Meanwhile, the Nashik police continued its search for Khan, who has been named in one of the nine FIRs in the case, on an allegation of making objectionable comments about a Hindu deity.
In a statement issued on Friday, police revealed that three independent teams have been deployed in the search for Khan. "During the investigation, Nida Khan's husband was taken into custody within the jurisdiction of the Mumbra police station for questioning," it said.
The statement added Khan's husband had revealed she was at a relative's place, but when police reached the location, they found the house locked. "It has also been observed that mobile phones of both the accused and her relatives were switched off," the statement said.
Khan's lawyer Baba Sayyad said, "We will file an anticipatory bail application for Nida; it will be done soon."
The state Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) questioned the two staffers from the BPO -- Raza Memon and Shafi Shaikh - who were arrested on March 28. The duo was quizzed for several hours to ascertain "if they had links with any terrorist outfit and if they were receiving funds from overseas for their unlawful activities". Nashik city police commissioner Sandip Karnik had sought help from the agency to verify these two aspects, which he said would help the police in its investigation....
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