Just off the Miyapur-Gachibowli main road in the western part of Hyderabad, an area where the who’s who of the tech city’s IT companies live, is a small lane. Drainwater runs down its middle, flowing past an unmarked six-storey apartment block. Here, 30 employees of Vertez Solutions lived in their first month at the company.
Among them were Prapti Sarkar from Howrah in West Bengal, Savitra Patro from Bhayander in Maharashtra, Karen Ovung from Dimapur in Nagaland, Bijay Thapa from Jorabat in Assam, and others who would get ferried to IT companies every evening, about 4 km away. On the morning of August 11, the new recruits were told by their managers to quickly pack up and vacate.
