Hyderabad, March 2 -- A Tech Mahindra employee from Maharashtra's Pune received nationwide condemnation after his comment on a LinkedIn post called for the "whitewashing" of the entire Muslim population.

The comment was posted under a Hindustan Times article posted on LinkedIn that reported Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's death on Sunday, March 1.

Dhanraj Khandagale, who works as a Senior Technical Specialist at the company, reportedly said, "It should be white wash of entire religion. They have been termite of entire erth since they have come to existence."

After his comment, several users flooded the comment section, calling out Khandagale's statement as hate speech and terming it a call for the genocide of Muslims. His ...