A private firm employee has ended his life after lodging a complaint against his reporting manager and two colleagues under the Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989. While one of the three accused has been arrested, two others are still at large.
The victim, Vivek Raj, who graduated with a bachelor of design course from NIFT, was working as Manager in Lifestyle International Private L.t.d., situated in Yamaluru, and living in a flat in Whitefield.
Vivek alleged that his reporting manager Malathy, and colleagues Kumar Suraj and Nitish Kumar used to harass him, and even abuse him as he belonged to the SC community. The accused would also reject his feedback report. Vivek escalated this to his senior managers, and even HR, but allegedly no action was taken.
