Employee harrasment
ajay
(Querist) 11 April 2012
This query is : Resolved
Hi Team,
I was working with a very renowned company of India. I went to UK for a project and came back from there after a duration of 3 months. The company was supposed to bear the expenses for lodging and boarding however since there was no arrangements done by my employee for my stay in UK, I stayed at various locations wherein I did not get any reciepts from my landlord as they had to pay the council taxes if they would hvae had paid the reciepts to me. When I came back I had to fill in my rembursement form to claim the expenses towards my lodging in UK. I enquired the same with my friends wh had already been to UK and had experience in dealing with this situation. They told me give forged reciepts and I did that however I was on the radar of the managment as they thought me to be a close allay of client and might switch sides.
There used to be no scrutiny of any of the reciepts in usual circumstances but in my case management decided to put my reciepts under close scanner and eventually I was caught. They stared harrasing me by threatning of a criminal case against me and sending legeal notices to me house. I asked them for a way out and they told me to giv e them 3.05 lacs to avoid any criminal proceeding against me. I gave them that money to them and it has been 3 months since then and I have not heard from them as yet.
In the meantime, I have come to know from few of my friends that they have sent mailers to most of the organisations stating them not to give me employment in their organisations. They have even gne to extent of mentioning my wife's name in those mailers as she also worked with me in the same organisation whilst she has got nothing to do with this.
Please let me know what all legal options I have got to get out of this catch22 situation as they are threatning me to terminate me which means I will not be able to work with any organisation as being terminated means end to your career in ITES industry.
Please help.
ajay sethi
(Expert) 11 April 2012
the biggest mistake you made was giving forged receipts . since you were caught with your pants down you paid rs 3.05 lakhs . it s an admission of guilt on your part .
resign on uyour own witht he experience you have start your own organisation . quit gracefully .
Deepak Nair
(Expert) 11 April 2012
You need to talk to the management personally and sort out the issue.
You have already admitted your wrong. Now you can send a letter of apology stating the circumstances under which you did the wrong.
If the talks fail, you can adopt the way as advised by Mr.Sethi.
Speak to them at the earliest. Bolne se baat banti hai.
RAJU O.F.,
(Expert) 15 April 2012
Forged receipts would be a sword hanging up on your head. Better leave the organisation and join elsewhere. Don't repeat foolish mistakes such as forged papers for reimbursement.
Sudhir Kumar, Advocate
(Expert) 25 April 2012
Jab Paap ki gathri sees dhari fir sees pard kyon rovat hai.
If it was Govt organisation you could have held the management responsibile for hiding all other frauds.
No need to say that you underestimated the wisdom of the Directors of the company who are runnin such a large enterprise and you turned ortrich eye to the hostile cricumstances.
In this case the company is justified to hand you over to the Indian Police and in case at time in you life you are found in UK then to UK Police.
They are acting very wisely that they can keep threatening you with cheating case then actually filing one becuase once they file they have no role accept as witness the role is of police and court.
By the way :-
How are they going to prove forgary in the Indian courts. Do they have means to bring witnessses from UK for each day when needed in Indian court for years togather.
