TCS Nashik scandal deepens: NCW orders probe, multiple FIRs, staff on WFH

The company saidits Nashik unit continues to operate normally and dismissed reports of a shutdown as entirely untrue.

“TCS holds itself to the highest standards of employee welfare and institutional conduct. We remainfully committed to the safety, dignity, and wellbeing of every employee, " TCS said.

"As we have stated before, we have a zero-tolerance policy towards any form of coercion or misconduct,” TCS said, adding it will continue to support employees and ensure a safe workplace across locations.

Company said it will extend full cooperation to law enforcement agencies to ensure the matter is investigated thoroughly, transparently, and brought to a rightful conclusion.

Earlier this week, Tata Sons Chairman N Chandrasekaran said the complaints and allegations emerging from the TCS Nashik branch are “gravely concerning and anguishing.” He added that the incident is being treated with the utmost seriousness, with action already initiated against the accused employees and full cooperation extended to ongoing investigations.

TCS CEO said that the company has set up an oversight committee, chaired by independent director Keki Mistry, to review the investigation at its Nashik unit, which is under scrutiny over allegations of sexual harassment and religious coercion involving women employees.

The company has also engaged teams from Deloitte and legal firm Trilegal as independent advisers to the internal probe being led by president and COO Aarthi Subramanian.

A team from Nashik crime branch on Friday reached Mumbra in Thane district in search of a 26-year-old TCS employee accused of subjecting a co-worker to religious harassment. Originally from Nashik, the woman was recently transferred to Mumbai after her husband secured employment with a private company in Mumbra as a logistics officer.