Sunday, October 28, 2007

Againnnnnn | North East Girls Victims of sexual advances

- Stops salary an suspends workers when they refuse

New Delhi, Oct 28 : A manager of a New Delhi Call Centre made sexual advances to two young women from North East India, and then stopped their salary and suspended them from work when they resisted his overtures.

The victims have complained to the NE Support Centre & Helpline.

NE Support Centre & Helpline’s initial investigations show, two women from Nagaland, aged about 23, were employed by Accurate Business Processing Outsourcing (BPO), Green Park Extension, New Delhi on September 4, 2007.

The manager of Accurate BPO allegedly made sexual advances to one of them, repeatedly asking her to accompany him on many occasions.

The young woman refused. The manager then allegedly turned to her friend. She too refused to fall in the trap.

He allegedly retaliated by stopping the transport pick up service to bring them to office and dropping them to the house they had rented in Safdarjang from October 12, 2007 onward. The women were forced to find their transport home late at night.

They told the NE Support Centre & Helpline that the manager abused them in the office and told them not to attend the office any more. The salary for the month of September has also been denied to the victims.

NE Support Centre & Helpline has no response from the Call Centre.

Racial discrimination in national capital has increased in many forms, and women from the North East and other tribal-dominated States such as Orissa and Chhattisgarh, are victims of sexual abuses and harassment in work places.

A week ago a girl from Manipur was molested by a tenant in Mahipalpur on October 21, 2007. The duty officer of Vasant Kunj Police station refused to register case until the Media intervened. The accused was arrested but the police failed to book a case under SC/ST Prevention of Atrocity Act though the victim belong to Scheduled Tribe community.

North East Support Centre & Helpline is a joint initiative of various human rights activists, social workers, students, journalists and lawyers seeking to prevent harassment and abuses meted out to North East People and tribal communities of other states.



http://www.sinlung.com/News/North-East/1436.html

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