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Infosys Technologies has sacked a software engineer, Abhishek Gupta, for making a hoax call to budget carrier GoAir at Delhi airport avoid missing his Bangalore-bound flight, a company official said here on Tuesday.

"Yes, we have sacked Gupta for indulging in unethical behaviour. We have a very strict code of conduct. We take strict action against those who do not adhere to it," Infosys board member and head of HRD and education and research T.V. Mohandas Pai told media.

The 25-year-old Gupta caused a bomb scare by telling GoAir staff that there was some suspicious object on the plane after he failed to convince them earlier to delay the flight.

"He thought the hoax call will delay the flight and he could reach the airport in the meantime to catch the flight," a Delhi police official said after Gupta was taken into custody and jailed.

The IT bellwether has also suspended another software engineer, Pallav Chakraborty, after he was arrested with his wife Sinchita by the Bangalore police Dec 29 for allegedly torturing their 15-year-old domestic maid.

"Though Chakraborty joined the company 15 days before his arrest, we suspended him after an inquiry into the child abuse, which is a very sad thing to have happened," Pai said.

"We do not condone such acts. We are saddened by such an inhuman act. We have 109,882 employees on rolls. I think as we grow bigger, we are not the sample but part of the universe," Pai said on the margins of a media briefing on the company's financial performance for the third quarter.

Pallav and Sinchita, who hail from Kolkata, brought the girl from West Bengal for household chores.

A social organisation rescued the girl after raiding the house following a tip that a young domestic maid was in a bad state with injuries on her back and cut marks on her lips.

The company was also forced to suspend another engineer, Krishnamurthy, working at its Mysore development centre, after the police arrested him Dec 3 on the charge of molesting a French woman.

 Top Comment : Kriti Das   | 01 13 2010 10:54:59 +0000
Yes Infosys has done the right thing, there are many such cases in India, but many organizations hesitate to take such decisions, as they have fear that they will loose out on good employee, by which organization will not be following the code of conduct properly by themselves, with such sort of things you might see repetition of such acts which is dangerous to the society and organization, so Infosys has done the right thing by sacking them.
 
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  Commented by  kp, Associate/Sr. Associate -(Technical), Tripod system    | 01 29 2010 07:26:45 +0000
yes it is right to sake him,this could be a good lesson for them who take some orphan or very poor children and promise them,that they will provide better life and also provide education but instead of this,they abuse and  beat them.    
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All acts judged to be unethical by an employer should not result in employee dismissal. However, when the acts are (a) plainly illegal, or (b) bring a bad reputation to the organisation, or (c) violent, or (d)discriminatory, then it is absolutely right for the organeeisation to sack the erring employee.
All acts judged to be unethical by an employer should not result in employee dismissal. However, when the acts are (a) plainly illegal, or (b) bring a bad reputation to the organisation, or (c) violent, or (d)discriminatory, then it is absolutely right for the organeeisation to sack the erring employee
I don't think that all acts judged to be unethical by an employer should result in employee dismissal. However, when the acts are (a) plainly illegal, or (b) bring a bad reputation to the organisation, or (c) violent, or (d)discriminatory, then it is absolutely right for the organeeisation to sack the erring employee.
  Commented by  malladi madhukumar, AGM -MKTG, Andhra Cements Ltd    | 01 14 2010 06:15:42 +0000
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Unethical behaviour should not encouraged.  Unethical behaviour leads to the success of money power and muscle power. Leaving the weak and ethical people to roads mostly stranded.
  Commented by  ujjval jain, All roles for me, Abhishek Ent    | 01 14 2010 04:38:05 +0000
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I wish such code of conduct for every citizen of this country...it may sound authoritarian way,,but I think for at least some time,,this should be implemented,,for all of us from the common man to unapproachable Netajis.
Thanks for the referral Dhesihan.
  Commented by  Kannan, Project Management Consultant    | 01 13 2010 11:41:47 +0000
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I think the action was too harsh for the most part. If Infy or any corporate needs to send a clear message, it must kill the behavior and not the person. I am sure there needs to be a separation between personal behavior and corporate behavior. Pending indictment, Infy should have demoted or heavily fined these persons as a first offense and of course made this public. Let us not point fingers, but begin to be ethical together.
  Commented by  Shrikant Durgawale, Admin/Facilities Manager, Seatek India    | 01 13 2010 11:32:10 +0000
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Its a absolutely right thing to do. If anyone doesn't know his responsibility he is not eligible for that post. And here he has mad the fake call just to catch the flight where he did not understood that there are other passengers also who might have the urgency of their work schedule and other things.
  Commented by  Dhesihan S, HR Executive, JUSTINTIME    | 01 13 2010 11:27:06 +0000
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These things are happen every where. But its come out with these kind of action from the corporate. Its really appreciable act. When we proudly say that" we are from CMM level 5 company, then we should have the social responsibilities and self ethics to maintain that.". Code of conduct makes the perfect employee, and when its fellow by the person every where then its create him/her as a perfect citizen. 
  Commented by  Kriti Das, HR Manager, ANZ Information Technology    | 01 13 2010 10:54:59 +0000
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Yes Infosys has done the right thing, there are many such cases in India, but many organizations hesitate to take such decisions, as they have fear that they will loose out on good employee, by which organization will not be following the code of conduct properly by themselves, with such sort of things you might see repetition of such acts which is dangerous to the society and organization, so Infosys has done the right thing by sacking them.
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