Praveen Dixit
DGP (Rtd)
Facts of the case
In the first week of April, Nashik City police registered nine cases of attempt to religious conversion, sexual harassment and religious harassment at the workplace. C P Nashik mentioned at a local branch of IT firm TCS. The accused -nine in total, including seven men and two women-held positions of authority such as team leaders and allegedly misused their roles to harass co-workers. He said the male accused appeared across multiple cases, suggesting coordinated misconduct. One female accused is named in a single case of religious harassment, while another, an HR head, is accused of discouraging a victim from filing a complaint.
“Police are conducting a thorough investigation and have contacted agencies like the SID, ATS, and NIA to examine any possible wider links. Initially, the first complainant was hesitant, but after receiving support and counselling from the police, more victims came forward, leading to multiple FIRs being registered”, he added.
Central agencies including IA and IB would explore if there was external funding behind these acts and if the scandal was part of a broader conspiracy. The agencies would also probe if the accused had performed similar acts previously in other companies., or this was their first organized attempt at forced religious conversions. Preliminary findings have revealed a high degree of preparation. Victims were chosen young women, aged 18-25 facing financial hardship. Plans were then made to approach and befriend them, commence physical relations, and then forcibly make them convert their religion.
Response from the corporate office
Tata Sons chairman N. Chandrasekaran had termed sexual harassment as “gravely concerning and anguishing”, and announced that a through investigation is underway under TCS Chief Operating Officer Arathi Subramanian to establish the facts and identify individuals responsible for the situation.
Steps by NCW
National Commission for Women (NCW) issued a statement on April 15, 2026 that it has constituted a fact-finding committee to probe led by retired Justice of Bombay High Court Sadhana Jadhav, and assisted by retired DGP Haryana, advocate from Supreme Court and a senior official from NCW. They would conduct an on-the-spot enquiry, examine the circumstances leading to the incident and assess the response of authorities. They would submit their findings in ten days.
Likely impact on the corporate affairs
Pareekh Jain, CEO of online information platform EIIRTrend said, “This incident is an eye opener and could be a turning point of how the IT industry takes PoSH (Prevention of Sexual Harassment) cases going forward. Global clients are likely to proactively seek PoSH audits across IT service centres, especially for junior and farthest employees from the corporate hierarchy”, forcing service providers to review governance across their delivery networks, he said. Absence of evidence doesn’t mean evidence of absence.
The case could also push IT firms to voluntarily publish PoSH reports, much like ESG (Environment, Social, Governance) disclosures, to show clients, boards and investors how complaints are tracked and resolved.
“The risk is no longer just misconduct but failure of process under the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition, and Redressal) Act, 2023, said Raheel Patel, partner at Gandhi Law Associates. “Clients especially global ones, may now begin seeking tighter contractual assurances around PoSH compliance, audit rights and mandatory reporting, effectively turning workplace safety into a commercial risk issue”. Patel noted.
Defence by the accused
During the hearing in the court, the advocate for the accused said, in a workplace when ladies and males are together for 8-10 hours, it is common to make observations about each other.
Wokism & DEI
Abhijit Joag who is an expert in Wokism and renowned author this should not be viewed as an isolated incident. Wokism or cultural Marxism is internationally attempting to destroy cultural established norms in democratic countries. It has penetrated into education, media, entertainment, civil services, judicial system. Now it has targeted corporate world. Capitalism is no logger the enemy of Marxism, now it is struggle against cultural established norms. Elite today under the influence of Wokism have established their control over corporate world. Their new jargon is ‘responsible corporate citizen’, ‘corporate governance’. Criterion for these have been decided by themselves. They are conducting audit of the company based on these norms and declaring if the company should be considered as good or otherwise. ESG (Environment, Social, Governance), DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) are the new norms for auditing. Company which provides employment to persons belonging to minorities, oppressed categories get higher numbers. Clients would purchase products from these companies. As a result, HR managers would never take any action against such persons as they are part of the eco-system.
In the name of DEI, which are only facades for ulterior motives, the real intention is to establish total control over corporate matters. In the name of satisfying these persons, it is necessary to delink the employees from their culture. Persons who have obtained their education from American Universities, and are under the influence of Wokism are now in a dominating position in the corporate world. In last couple of decades, China and Quatar have donated trillions of dollars in American universities to spread their ideology. China wants to spread Marxist concepts while Quatar is keen on Jihadi ideology. Students graduating from these places are completely brainwashed. Many Indian Universities are also championing these concepts here. They would champion ideas such as Islamophobia and justice for the downtrodden and justify DEI. It is imperative that the corporate world needs to reject this Wokism from their premises at the earliest.
Situation in USA
US President Trump in his second term has given priority to reject the DEI and directed all Universities, local bodies, schools and other institutions that unless these bodies get rid of DEI, they would not be provided federal financial aid which amounts to millions off dollars.
On April 15, 2026, The Washinton Post prominently covered debate in Texas city over Trump’s national dilemma. Trump has given ultimatum: End the city’s diversity programs or risk losing all federal funding. This would halt decades- old programs helping businesses owned by underrepresented minorities to get city contracts. In US it is the Latinos or Hispanics who have been benefitting from this DEI ideology. Trump’s directive extends from government entities to businesses to schools and more. The blacks who also benefitted are equally disappointed. Increasingly the blacks are announcing they don’t need special considerations. Everybody who needs help, should be given the same
Measures needed in India
Instead of blaming the victims and advising them to be more cautious, it is imperative to take measures to improve the system and addressing the root causes behind such incidents. Similarly in India also time has come to reject these Marxist concepts at the earliest and advisory needs to be issued by MHA as well as Ministry of Corporate Affairs to all concerned.
The fact that married Muslim are indulging in giving false assurances to young Hindu girls and doing sexual assaults, underlines the need of adopting Uniformed Civil Code (UCC).
Anther important issue is about the fear or distrust pervading among victim young ladies. This gap between the terrified public and law enforcing agencies can be effectively filed in by promoting women and gents’ police mitras at every police station.
