Roiz's lawyers contemplating court action against Phaneesh Murthy - Business Standard

After Phaneesh Murthy, the disgraced former president and CEO of IT services company iGate, went public with his relationship with the company's investor relations Head Araceli Roiz, Aiman-Smith & Marcy, the California-based the law firm that represents Roiz has come out with startling revelations. The law firm has said that Murthy started exploiting Roiz soon after she joined the company in May 2010. After she became pregnant, he forced her to go for an abortion and even attempted to get her to leave the company to keep his relationship a secret. Roiz's attorneys have also said that since iGate's CFO, Sujit Sircar, who was her reporting head was based out of India, she had to report to Murthy on daily basis. Taking advantage of this, he 'insinuated himself into Roiz's personal life using the pretext of business necessity' and engaged in 'abusive and harassing actions'. The law firm also made it clear that its next course of action will certainly include court action against Murthy and the company since under California law, the employer is liable for the conduct of its CEO. Here is the point by point allegation made by Murthy during his interaction with media persons on Tuesday and the clarification given by the law firm: As to the timing of Murthy's disclosure of his relationship to the board: When Roiz refused to have an abortion, Murthy attempted to get her to leave the company and keep their relationship a secret. It was not until after Roiz refused to do so and informed him that she would be seeking legal representation and her lawyers contacted Murthy's counsel that he reluctantly informed the board of the relationship, just before the Board would have learned all this on its own from other sources. On Murthy saying the relationship with Roiz lasted just for few months: Murthy's statement is a lie - Murthy began pursuing Roiz shortly after her employment began in 2010. On Murthy's comments that Roiz or her attorneys are engaging in 'extortion': Murthy's comments are defamatory and a despicable attempt to 'blame the victim', who only wants to somehow continue her career and support her child.  Murthy has, astonishingly, attempted to gain sympathy based on his own prior bad actions. Roiz selected the law firm, Aiman-Smith & Marcy, based upon the firm's excellent reputation as vigorous advocates for victims of employment discrimination and its prior success in getting compensation for some of Murthy's previous victims On iGate's press statement which says Murthy had not violated its sexual harassment policy: Under California law, the employer is liable for the conduct of its CEO. We do not believe a full, impartial, investigation can possibly result in this conclusion, but we note that, according to iGate, its investigation is continuing. We hope that iGate will take appropriate responsibility in this matter and that it can be concluded on that basis.   via Technology - Google News http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNGzXOSOX538Mu3IvUKR8rPyUgImIw&url=http://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/roiz-s-lawyers-contemplating-court-action-against-phaneesh-murthy-113052300187_1.html

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