<p class="title">Tech Mahindra has sacked the employee, who had been accused by a former employee of harassing and discriminating against him on grounds of sexual orientation, according to a tweet by the IT major.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"@gauravpramanik, arising out of an investigation carried out in the matter, the concerned employee has been separated from the employment of the company with immediate effect," Tech Mahindra said in a tweet late Saturday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It further added that the company believes in diversity and inclusion, and condemns "discrimination of any kind in the workplace". This tweet was re-tweeted more than 400 times and liked over 900 times.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Gaurav Probir Pramanik, in a statement, said: "The path to my vindication hasn't been easy over the past week. I have been abused, threatened, maligned and my character been questioned. But I knew it would have been this way all this while, and I was prepared for it to rain on me...However, I hadn't realised how mentally exhausting all of this was. Thank you to all who have supported me steadfastly".</p>.<p class="bodytext">He added that he would like to know the steps that policymakers at Tech Mahindra are taking to ensure that such incidents don't occur in the future.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"How are you, as an organisation going to put in place stricter and more stringent policies to keep a check on discrimination against sexual and religious minorities. How are you going forward with sensitising your employees about gender sensitivity? I would love to hear from their HR team in this regard," he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Last week, Tech Mahindra had said it would conduct a thorough probe after a former employee, just days after the Supreme Court decriminalising homosexuality, alleged harassment and discrimination by his then team manager in 2015.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In a recent mail written to his previous manager after the SC's landmark order, Pramanik had cited a 2015 incident where the manager concerned, during an address in a training room, had allegedly made "sweeping generalisation and stereotyping of someone's sexuality".</p>
<p class="title">Tech Mahindra has sacked the employee, who had been accused by a former employee of harassing and discriminating against him on grounds of sexual orientation, according to a tweet by the IT major.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"@gauravpramanik, arising out of an investigation carried out in the matter, the concerned employee has been separated from the employment of the company with immediate effect," Tech Mahindra said in a tweet late Saturday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It further added that the company believes in diversity and inclusion, and condemns "discrimination of any kind in the workplace". This tweet was re-tweeted more than 400 times and liked over 900 times.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Gaurav Probir Pramanik, in a statement, said: "The path to my vindication hasn't been easy over the past week. I have been abused, threatened, maligned and my character been questioned. But I knew it would have been this way all this while, and I was prepared for it to rain on me...However, I hadn't realised how mentally exhausting all of this was. Thank you to all who have supported me steadfastly".</p>.<p class="bodytext">He added that he would like to know the steps that policymakers at Tech Mahindra are taking to ensure that such incidents don't occur in the future.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"How are you, as an organisation going to put in place stricter and more stringent policies to keep a check on discrimination against sexual and religious minorities. How are you going forward with sensitising your employees about gender sensitivity? I would love to hear from their HR team in this regard," he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Last week, Tech Mahindra had said it would conduct a thorough probe after a former employee, just days after the Supreme Court decriminalising homosexuality, alleged harassment and discrimination by his then team manager in 2015.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In a recent mail written to his previous manager after the SC's landmark order, Pramanik had cited a 2015 incident where the manager concerned, during an address in a training room, had allegedly made "sweeping generalisation and stereotyping of someone's sexuality".</p>