Click to play videoBangalore: The discovery of the body of a call centre employee shocked tech-city Bangalore on Wednesday.
Tania Banerjee, an employee with Aviva 24/7 Customer Service call centre in Whitefield, was found murdered at Sakleshpur near Hassan on the Bangalore-Mangalore highway on Wednesday morning.
Police said her body was thrown on the highway after she was murdered.
The Bangalore Police took her boyfriend, Gururaj Kishore, to the murder spot.
Kishore is a resident of Rajajinagar, Bangalore. According to the police, he was the one who had been dropping Tania to office for the last three days.
Twenty-five-year-old Tania hails from West Bengal and her parents live in Kolkata.
She was at work till 9.30 pm on Tuesday night and according to the COO of Aviva 24/7, Mr Nagarajan, she left without availing of office transport.
He added that since the incident happened outside of office hours, the company had nothing much to say about. He said that the only thing that company could do was to compensate Tanya's family adequately for their loss.
Tania's body bore 25 stab wounds. It has been taken for a post-mortem. A murder case has been registered and her parents notified.
Just six months ago, another BPO employee from HP, Prathiba, was found murdered in Banglaore,
In a similar gruesome incident, a taxi-driver had raped and killed a 24-year-old call centre employee in Bangalore in December last year.
The driver committed the crime after picking up Prathibha Srikanth Murthy from home for an early morning shift.
Prathibha was picked up at about 2 am in the morning, but instead of taking her to her HP GlobalSoft call centre, the driver took her to an underdeveloped suburb, where he raped and murdered her.
Taxis ferrying BPO workers in Bangalore have already earned a bad name for frequent accidents, but with a driver working with a multinational turning killer, denizens of India’s tech city have been left shocked and horrified.
After Pratibha's murder, many basic security measures for women were to be introduced in call centres - including verification of cab drivers backgrounds, arranging security guards for women and making sure that women were never picked up first or dropped last.
However, Bangalore Police Commissioner told CNN-IBN that a lot of companies have still not implemented these safety measures.
Also women feel that Bangalore is not as safe as it used to be with incidents of mugging, chain snatching and daylight thefts becoming far too frequent.
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