TCS Nashik employee Nida Khan, key accused in conversion case, arrested
Nida is named in the first of the nine FIRs registered in connection with the case at the Deolali Camp police station and her anticipatory bail plea had recently been rejected by the Nashik Sessions court.
Police deployed constables as undercover housekeeping staff inside the 147-employee BPO for several days, which, the police claim, provided the grounds for action.
Nida Khan, who is one of the eight accused in the TCS sexual harassment and conversion case, was arrested by the Nashik City police from Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar on Thursday. Nida is named in the first of the nine FIRs registered in connection with the case at the Deolali Camp police station and her anticipatory bail plea had recently been rejected by the Nashik Sessions court.
Nashik City Police Commissioner Sandeep Karnik confirmed Nida’s arrest.
Nida will be brought to Nashik and produced before a court on Friday where the police will seek her custody. Nida’s lawyer had earlier sought anticipatory bail plea citing that she was pregnant and that her name was only in one FIR and she is accused of hurting religious sentiments.
The prosecution, while opposing her bail plea, had said that Khan had played a role in the ‘religious conversion’ of a victim by giving her burqa, religious books and installing religious apps on her phone.
Khan, who worked at TCS’s BPO office in Nashik, is one of eight accused named across nine FIRs registered by the Nashik City police between March 26 and April 3 in connection with the alleged sexual harassment and conversion.
Seven others — Danish Sheikh, Shafi Shaikh, Asif Ansari, Tausif Attar, Shahrukh Qureshi, Raza Memon and Ashwini Chainani — have already been arrested.
The case came to light in February when a local political party worker approached Nashik police alleging that a Hindu woman working at the BPO had been influenced to follow Islamic practices at her workplace.
Police deployed constables as undercover housekeeping staff inside the 147-employee BPO for several days, which, the police claim, provided the grounds for action.
TCS had stated that it has a zero-tolerance policy towards harassment and coercion of any form, and that the employees allegedly involved in sexual harassment have been suspended.
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