Opinion | Why The Nashik Conversion Case Needs Immediate Remedial Action

Because it shows how easily proselytisers can game the system and remain undetected

While there are more shocking facts emerging about the ‘corporate jihad’ operation at Nashik, what should alarm companies, employees, and families alike is the allegation that there was collusion to convert co-workers and that it had been happening for quite a while.

It reveals just how terrifyingly easy it is to game the system and conduct coercive activities undetected if the people concerned know how to stay under the radar. It has put the whole system on notice.

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Since this incident came to light, other worrisome ongoing practices in Indian companies, including discriminatory dress codes, have also been exposed. But while those are indeed worthy of proper investigation and prompt rectification, the issue of widespread organised proselytisation pressure in the workplace has far deeper ramifications as it automatically puts an entire community under the lens, not just possibly careless managements of sundry companies.

There are attempts to characterise the incident as a set-up, a way to further beleaguer minority employees around India, but the complaints of nine women were verified via undercover investigations by women of the Nashik Police before the conversion suspects were picked up.

So there was clinching evidence in hand before busting the........

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