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Software professional files court case against 9 former superiors who he says forced him to resign after making him go through hell at work

Are his men behaving? Azim Premji, chairman of Wipro, which is one of the largest software companies in the country.  FILE PIC

Accusing his bosses of forcing him to resign from his job, a techie who was working with Wipro in Bangalore has filed a court case seeking an order that the police investigate the matter.

G Ram Mohan, who is from Hyderabad, has filed the private complaint in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bangalore Rural, against nine Wipro officials because he says the police did not look into his grievances when he approached them.

In the complaint, Mohan told the court he was an employee of Wipro Technologies, Electronics City, from December 3, 2007, till his services were terminated on March 10.

Threats and insults

Mohan alleged that his bosses made him run personal errands and humiliated him. "When I opposed this, they continued to threaten me and sought my resignation, even trying to get me (to) sign a blank paper," the techie said in the complaint.

Mohan added that the accused also kept him locked in a room for several hours.

Speaking to MiD DAY, Ram Mohan said, "Upon my refusing to sign on the blank paper, the accused threatened to inform NASSCOM (National Association of Software Companies) and ensure that I would not get a job elsewhere."

The complaint mentions that the offences committed caused him a lot of mental tension and also resulted in his pregnant wife suffering a miscarriage on January 10.

Disappointed

The information technology professional claims that before he joined Wipro he had nine years of experience in software testing, a specialised field in the industry.

The complainant said he joined Wipro Technologies because he was promised equal opportunities so that he could achieve growth in the industry and the development of his career.

Instead of all this, Mohan was disappointed with what he encountered at the workplace.

The nine accused are Keshav Kumar, Sreeranganathan, Ankur Chadha, Anuradha Raju, Ganesh Halapethi, Supriya Mahajan, Vikram Mirani, Sulekha Jagadish and Shalini Macaden.

Police inaction

Mohan's complaint also talks of approaching the police. It says he registered complpaints of criminal intimidation, wrongful restraint and wrongful confinement at the Electronics City police station on August 17, but which did not result in any police action.

The complainant had also submitted a representation to the jurisdictional Assistant Commissioner of Police and Deputy Commissioner of Police on August 26 and September 7, respectively, as the Electronics City police were not taking up the matter.

Mohan said it was after all his attempts to get the police to act had failed that he approached the court for justice.

The Other Side
A spokesperson of Wipro, when contacted, sought more time to reply to queries about the complaint filed in court against nine of the leading Indian software company's senior employees.