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Women workers of TATA Electronics successful Nagamangalam, Hosur, staged a monolithic protestation precocious connected Tuesday (November 4, 2025) aft a CCTV camera was recovered wrong a bath astatine Vidiyal Residency, a state-of-art workers’ hostel of the institution astatine Kelamangalam. A 22-year-old worker, Neelu Kumari Gupta, hailing from Odisha, was arrested by the Udhanapalli constabulary successful transportation with the incident.
The constabulary said Ms. Gupta’s friend, who is simply a autochthonal of Maharashtra, noticed the camera successful the bath connected Sunday (November 2). She had informed Ms. Gupta astir it, and the second seemingly feigned shock. The affected idiosyncratic had besides alerted the different residents. According to the police, earlier the different girls were rallied backmost to the bathroom, the camera was removed by Ms. Gupta.
Late Tuesday evening, hundreds of women workers staged a sit-in extracurricular Vidiyal Residency. When the constabulary and the territory medication reached the spot, the workers demanded that each the bathrooms beryllium searched for cameras.
Krishnagiri Superintendent of Police P. Thangadurai told The Hindu that the institution had conducted an interior inquiry, and connected Tuesday morning, it recovered that Ms. Gupta had acceptable up the camera. “She was counselled. Later, the workers deed the streets demanding action,” helium said, adding that the constabulary received a ailment from the idiosyncratic hailing from Maharashtra, and they subsequently detained Ms. Gupta.
‘Company failed to pass police’
When asked wherefore TATA Electronics failed to pass the police, Mr. Thangadurai said: “That was a mistake connected their part. They ought to person archetypal informed america adjacent arsenic they were conducting an interior inquiry.”
The accused pistillate claimed to the constabulary she was blackmailed by her antheral person into placing the camera, said a constabulary source. “She was holding onto the camera for a week, unwilling to bash it, earlier she installed it connected Sunday. No video was sent. Since it was successful plain sight, it was spotted by the complainant. In immoderate way, the accused is simply a unfortunate herself,” the serviceman contended.
The SP has constituted a peculiar squad to way the antheral person and to verify Ms. Gupta’s claim. The man, besides from Odisha, reportedly works arsenic an earthmover relation successful Bengaluru.
On Wednesday, implicit 200 constabulary unit were stationed astatine Vidiyal Residency. Additionally, 10 teams of 100 unit combed 9 retired of the 11 blocks that were occupied by the residents.
Workers said that TATA Electronics has strict non-disclosure agreements that barroom its employees from speaking to the media.
