Infosys founder gets booked under SC/ST Atrocities Act
text_fieldsBengaluru: Karnataka police booked Kris Gopalakrishnan, the founder of Infosys, and 17 others who are faculty and administrative members of the Indian Institute of Science over a complaint of caste-based discrimination, The News Minute reported.
The case is registered under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Prevention of Atrocities Act. The FIR, which was registered on Monday at the Sadashivnagar Police Station, was based on the complaint by a former faculty, D Sanna Duragappa.
According to the complainant, the accused subjected him to casteist abuse. They removed him from his position as a faculty at the Centre for Sustainable Technology on the campus in 2014, framing a false case of sexual harassment.
Duragappa, from the SC community of Bovi, alleged that he faced discrimination after requesting a separate lab under Schedule Caste Sub-Plan and Tribal Sub-Plan.
According to him, Indian Institute of Science Director Balaram P and other institute’s governing council members built a ‘honey trap’ to bring him down.
He further pointed out that a 2017 investigation report on the sexual harassment case against him had found no evidence proving him guilty, but he was targeted because of his caste identity. Though the institute had agreed to reinstate him after this, it failed to do so, and he remains unemployed.
The FIR names 18 people, including Sridhar Warrier, Anil Kumar, Namrata Gundaih, Nirmala, Sandya Vishwanath, Dipshika Chakravarthy, Hari KVS, Dasappa, Govindan Rangarajan, Balachandra P, Hemala Mhishi, Anjali Karande, Chattopadhyaya K, Pradeep Sawkar, Abhilash Raju and Manoharan.