Call Centre Employees demand justice

TNN / Dec 18, 2005, 01:26 IST

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‘Hang the Rapist', ‘He deserves the most severe punishment' were the cries of the call centre employees.

BANGALORE: ��Hang the Rapist', ��He deserves the most severe punishment' were the cries that rent the air as employees of various call centres organised a protest to condemn the gruesome rape and murder of 24-year-old Hewlett Packard BPO employee Prathibha Srikanth Murthy on Saturday.
Waking up to a shock after reading about the incident, some call centre employees took out a protest march demanding safety for women colleagues.
Not many BPO executives turned up for the protest, though most of them did not know about it till 2 pm on Saturday as they return home late in the night and sleep through till 1 or 2 pm. "But it's just a beginning.
Soon we will come out in thousands and protest till the rapist and murderer is hanged," said Santosh K J, an employee who works with Siemens BPO.

ISEVA employee Shridhar felt the police and BPOs were equally responsible for the security of employees. "The police should be patrolling lonely stretches during night.
Besides, cab drivers should be scanned by the security department of the organisation to check identity," he said.
Ocwein Financial employee Nawaz Moinuddin, who is a colleague of the victim's husband Pavan, said, "In the past seven months of my service, I have had four cab drivers. Since we do not know Kannada, we have a tough time communicating with them.��

There are some who feel it is the employees themselves who have to be responsible for female colleagues.
Vanguard Securities employee Pradeep Kumar, whose shift gets over at 1 am, said since it is impossible for the police to be everywhere, employees should cooperate among themselves.
"There are five female colleagues with us in the night shift. We make sure the cab drops them home first. Though we get late by 20 minutes, this is the least we can do for our colleagues."

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