Infosys employee held for filming colleague in office restroom, fired
Bengaluru, July 3 -- A 28-year-old Infosys employee was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly filming a woman colleague inside a washroom at the company's Electronics City campus in Bengaluru, police said.
The incident came to light on June 30 when the woman caught the accused, identified as Swapnil Nagesh Mali from Sangli in Maharashtra, in the act. The employee has since been terminated, Infosys said in a statement released on Wednesday.
Police said the woman noticed a suspicious reflection from a cubicle while using the washroom. Upon checking, she found Mali standing on the toilet seat with his phone positioned through the gap to record her.
"She caught him red-handed," a police official aware of the details said on anonymity.
She then alerted others, following which employees and members of the company's HR team rushed to the scene. Upon examining Mali's phone, they found purported video clips of the woman, police said.
The officer said that Infosys ordered an internal investigation into the matter, following which the firm urged the accused to apologise to the woman and her family. The woman's family also refused any private settlement, the officer said, adding that they approached the Electronics City police station and filed a formal complaint on Tuesday.
"Based on the complaint, we arrested Swapnil Mali on Wednesday," inspector BG Naveen Kumar said....
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