Manipuri Youth Claims to Have Been Beaten up by BPO Boss and Staff

A North-East support helpline activist was shocked to discover that a young man had been beaten up in urban NCR.

A Manipuri youth, working with a BPO in Gurugram, accused CEO and the staff of stripping him naked and beating him up with a baseball bat, during an interrogation.

The youth in question, Romen Arambam, alleged that he was punched, kicked and beaten up with a leather belt by his boss and office colleagues who accused him of data theft that led to a loss of around Rs 2 crore to the company.

Romen Arambam, an employee of the BPO ‘IT Solutions’, also claimed that they poured cold water on his private parts and captured the incident on a mobile phone.

While recalling his ordeal, Romen said that he was called to manager’s office after he reached the office on 13 January, after which he was questioned in the presence of bouncers.

They pressured me to tell them who was responsible for the loss. I repeatedly told them that I did not know. This continued till late in the night. Around midnight, the CEO started hitting me. They punched me, kicked me, stripped me and hit me with a baseball bat. One of them even captured it on a mobile phone. After I lost consciousness, they took me to Neelkanth Hospital around 3 am and told the doctor that I had fallen from the stairs.

Romen told The Hindu

Romen, who arrived in the capital six years ago, asserted that the company’s owner targeted him because he was from the North East.

“I joined the company barely a month ago and was still not well-versed with its functioning. They found me to be a soft target and beat me up to extort information,” he added.

Tshering Lepcha, a North-East support helpline activist, said that he was shocked to discover that a young man had been beaten up brutally in NCR.

“We read about such incidents in remote areas of the country, but how can it happen so close to Delhi? This is shameful. It is a case of racial discrimination,” said Mr. Lepcha.

Roman filed an FIR against seven employees at Gurgaon’s Udyog Vihar Police Station. However the Station House Officer, Inspector Arjun, denied Romen’s earlier claim that the attack was racially motivated.

A case has now been registered at the Udyog Vihar police station under sections 148, 149, 323 and 506 of the Indian Penal Code. When contacted however, the CEO denied allegations saying he had no clue about how the youth had suffered the injuries.