Tech Mahindra fired its executive on accusations of harassing and discriminating an ex-employee on the basis of sexual orientation. In a tweet, Tech Mahindra stated:
“@gauravpramanik, arising out of an investigation carried out in the matter, the concerned employee has been separated from the employment of the company with immediate effect. At Tech Mahindra, we believe n diversity & inclusion & condemn discrimination of any kind in the workplace,” read a tweet from the official Twitter handle of Tech Mahindra.
On September 9, Gaurav Pramanik had tweeted the screenshots of a mail he had sent to Richa Gautam, head of Training and Chief Diversity and Inclusion Office, calling her out on her homophobia.
“As promised, I wrote an email to my then boss at a Mahindra company I used to work with. She was a bigot and I suffered in her hands, I hence called her out,” he tweeted along with the screenshots.
As promised, I wrote an email to my then boss at a Mahindra company I used to work with. She was a bigot and I suffered in her hands, I hence called her out. pic.twitter.com/4uHev8MY7G
— GauravProbirPramanik (@gauravpramanik) September 9, 2018
Pramanik started by writing that he had promised to write to the manager “the day IPC Section 377 was scrapped and being a homosexual in a country as great as India was legal”. He recalls an incident when Richa had shot off another employee and called him gay for crying.
Richa had allegedly made “sweeping generalisation and stereotyping of someone’s sexuality”. Gaurav accused the manager of making “a mockery out of a religious minority and a sexual minority” despite being a leader at a company that prides itself for inclusion and diversity.
“The path to my vindication hasn’t been easy over the past week. I have been abused, threatened, maligned and my character been questioned. But I knew it would have been this way all this while, and I was prepared for it to rain on me…However, I hadn’t realised how mentally exhausting all of this was. Thank you to all who have supported me steadfastly,and for standing by me unwaveringly,” Pramanik said in a statement.
“How are you, as an organisation going to put in place a stricter and more stringent policies to keep a check on discrimination against sexual and religious minorities. How are you going forward with sensitising your employees about gender sensitivity? I would love to hear from their HR team in this regard,” he added in the statement.
Richa Gautam who is ironically the inclusivity Officer at Tech Mahindra has openly called for the killing of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. Not just that, Gautam wants to join the Army and then kill Kejriwal herself.
Apparently, Richa is also angry with student leader Omar Khalid and Dalit leader Jignesh Mewani as much she is with Kejriwal. She wants them dead too.
