A Nashik court on Monday declined to grant interim relief to Nida Ejaz Khan, one of the accused in the TCS Nashik BPO religious conversion and sexual harassment case. In her plea, Khan has sought anticipatory bail on the ground of her pregnancy. The criminal bail application was filed by Khan on April 18 through advocates Baba Sayyad and Rahul Kasliwal.
Khan also sought interim protection from arrest till pendency of the anticipatory bail application.The same was rejected by the District Judge KG Joshi at the Additional District Court, Nashik Road.The plea will now be heard finally on April 27.
Khan moved the court for protection from arrest even as the Special Investigation Team (SIT), constituted for the case, continues to look for her. The case involves allegations that various accused persons sexually harassed women employees of TCS and made attempts to convert them to Islam. In all, eight accused – six men and two women, including a Pune‑based operations manager – have been named.
Seven have been arrested by the police. The arrested accused are Shafi Shaikh, Asif Ansari, Tausif Attar, Shahrukh Qureshi, Raza Memon, Danish Shaikh and Ashwini Chainani, the operations / human resources manager.Nida is the only accused yet to be arrested. She is named in only one FIR, which alleges that she made derogatory references to Hindu deities.
She has also claimed there has been a delay in lodging the FIR. Nida Khan, accused of forcible religious conversion at the Nashik unit of the IT giant Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), has been on the run for the last week - with her husband changing stances on her location to the police.
Khan, who was working at the Nashik unit of the TCS, was transferred to the Mumbai offices in Malad and Hiranandani two months ago - shortly after her husband, Moin Naveed Iqbal Khan, secured a job as a logistics officer at Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Mumbra, Thane. However, when her name popped up in the TCS 'conversion' case, she was suspended from her job and fled to evade arrest.
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