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The National Commission of Women is set to visit the TCS-linked BPO office in Nashik for an on-site inquiry over the alleged sexual harassment case on Friday. As per the commission, a suo motu cognisance of serious media reports has been taken related to the incident.

“The National Commission for Women (NCW) has taken suo motu cognisance of serious media reports concerning alleged incidents of sexual harassment of women at the Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) BPO unit in Nashik, Maharashtra,” PTI quoted NCW’s statement.

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“Taking a serious view of the matter, the Commission, in exercise of its powers under Section 8 of the National Commission for Women Act, 1990, has constituted a fact-finding committee to conduct a detailed inquiry into the incident. The committee will visit the place of the incident on April 17,” it added.

The commission under Section 8 of the National Commission for Women Act, 1990, constituted a Fact-Finding Committee to conduct a detailed inquiry into the incident. 

The Committee comprises: 

  • Justice Sadhna Jadhav, Retired Judge of Bombay High Court 
  • BK Sinha, Former DGP Haryana 
  • Monika Arora, Supreme Court Advocate 
  • Lilabati, Senior Co-Ordinator, NCW 

Case Reaches Supreme Court

On Thursday, Ashwini Upadhyay, an advocate, filed an appeal in the Supreme Court to declare that force and manipulation for converting a person to a different religion is a major problem for maintaining India's cohesiveness. Upadhyay cited the Nasik TCS harassment case in the plea.

"The Organised Religious Conversion in Nasik has shaken the conscience of citizens throughout the country. Therefore, the petitioner is filing this application seeking directions and declarations to control deceitful religious conversion, which is a serious threat to sovereignty, secularism, democracy, equality, justice, liberty, fraternity, unity and national integration," ANI quoted the plea. 

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The initial investigation revealed disturbing instances of sexual, mental, and religious harassment at the TCS BPO unit. Eight employees, including seven male employees and a female operations manager, have been arrested in connection with the case. Another female employee named in the probe remains at large.

A Nashik court has remanded the arrested operations manager to judicial custody until April 28.

As per the officials, complaints were filed by eight female employees, while one case was filed by a male employee alleging harassment and attempted conversion. 


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