Pune: With the Supreme Court refusing to reconsider a ruling allowing prosecution of former managing director of Hewlett Packard GlobalSoft, Som Mittal, in a case related to the death of a call centre employee in Bangalore, Pune police are now seeking to apply the same rule in the Wipro employee murder case.
A day after the top court fixed responsibility for the safety of women employees, the Pune police have sought legal advice on the prosecution of the CEO of a Wipro BPO there for alleged negligence in the rape and murder of an employee last year.
A 22-year-old employee of the Wipro BPO, Jyoti, was raped and killed, allegedly by her call centre cab driver Purshottam Borate and his friend Pradeep Kokade, off the Pune-Mumbai Expressway on November 2 last year.
Pune SSP (rural) Vishwas Nangre Patil said he believes that the SC verdict in the HP case will help his team in solving the Wipro BPO case.
"We will ask our legal experts about Thursday's judgement and see if it can be applied to this case. We will see if vicarious responsibility can be assigned. The police will act accordingly," Patil told CNN-IBN.
Thursday's SC ruling came on a petition in a case relating to the rape and murder of Pratibha Srikant Murthy by Shivakumar, a cab driver, on December 13, 2005.
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The police had filed an FIR, accusing the BPO management of violating a Karnataka Government's Shops and Establishments Act of 2002, which makes it mandatory for BPOs to provide security in vehicles ferrying night-shift employees.
PUNE BPO EMPLOYEE MURDER CASE
In the Pune case, the cab driver of an office pickup vehicle and his accomplice raped and killed the young call centre employee on the night of November 2. The Pune police later arrested the two accused and they are said to have confessed to the crime.
The incident took place hours after Jyoti Chowdhury, the call centre employee, left her Panchavati Apartment Complex for office at night.
The office pickup vehicle, an Indica, had picked her up at around 2230 hours, but the driver, instead of going straight to office, took Jyoti somewhere else, saying there was another person who needs a pick up.
Jyoti wasn't surprised. She was talking to a friend on her phone when the phone suddenly went dead.
"While she was speaking, the phone went dead. And her boyfriend alerted her sister in Delhi. The case was registered by Jyoti's family on Friday morning," the DCP of Zone 3, Pune, Chandrashekhar Daithankar, said.
Police subsequently picked up the two men. Police claim the two accused have confessed to the dreadful act.
According to the police, the car driver said he picked up an accomplice on the way and then took the vehicle to an isolated village, called Gehungi, off the Mumbai-Pune highway. The two then raped the girl there and killed her with the help of a blunt object.
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