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Nashik Police files first 1,500-page chargesheet in TCS BPO harassment case

Nashik Police files first 1,500-page chargesheet in TCS BPO harassment case

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Nashik Police on Friday have filed a detailed 1,500-page chargesheet in a sexual harassment case linked to the Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) BPO unit in Nashik. The case involves multiple complaints and a total of nine FIRs have been registered against the accused so far. However, this is the first chargesheet filed in only one of the cases under investigation, reported IANS. SIT findings and key evidence According to an official statement from Nashik Police Commissioner Sandeep Karnik’s office, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the matter has found evidence related to alleged forced religious conversion of the victim. The police said this act has also caused offence to religious sentiments. Investigators have also recovered original documents that were allegedly used to change the victim’s name and identity. Additionally, digital and technical evidence has been collected, including WhatsApp chat screenshots taken from the mobile phones of both the victim and the accused, as per the news agency. Accused named and legal status The chargesheet names four accused — Danish Ejaz Shaikh, Tausif Bilal Attar, Nida …

Book Review: A grandfather’s 1,500-page family history undergirds Claire Messud’s latest novel

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Secrets and shame — every family has its share. When it came time to write her most autobiographical novel, Claire Messud relied on a 1,500-page family history compiled by her paternal grandfather. The result, “This Strange Eventful History,” sprawls over a third as many pages — 423, to be exact — to tell the story of three generations of a French Algerian family displaced from their colonial homeland, who never quite found another place where they felt so completely at home. HT Image The story is told from the point of view of the fiercely French, devoutly Catholic, patriarch Gaston; his rootless, cosmopolitan son, Francois; and his fearful, deluded, psychologically damaged daughter, Denise. Rounding out the chorus are Barbara, the beautiful, Protestant, Canadian-born wife of Francois, torn between roles as wife, mother and daughter as she struggles to earn a law degree at the peak of 1970s-era “women’s lib” while raising their two daughters and whipping up Julia Child recipes for dinner parties; and finally, Gaston’s granddaughter Chloe, a stand-in for the author, inheritor of …