A day after the employees staged protest in Dehradun, two employees of a private company PC Technology Pvt limited were arrested from Kolkata on Tuesday. The accused have been identified as Biplab Mandal and his wife Puwali Basu. Notably, around 600 employees of the company, located at Doon Business Park, Transport Nagar (ISBT), Dehradun, protested in the city on Monday, alleging that the company officials had shut down the office on Monday without clearing their salaries for the past few months. Acting on the complaint received from a protester, police registered a case under sections 420/406/120b of IPC against six persons- Pankaj Singh, Yashraj, Chhaya Singh, Biplab Mandal and his wife Puwali Basu and Tuhin Chakraborty in Clement Town Police Station on Monday, said a Clement Town officer over the phone.
Clement Town police officer said that this company has been operational since June 16, 2015 in Dehradun and there are eight branches in the country -in Mumbai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Chennai, Vishakhapatnam, Dehradun, Bangalore and Pune. The company was registered in Kolkata. Kolkata police have arrested the accused duo. A team has been formed to investigate the case.
Meanwhile, a protester Gaurav Joshi said that the company had given six days’ leave for Independence Day and Raksha Bandhan from August 15. When they had reached office on Monday, they found it closed, he said, adding that the company officials had run away to avoid paying them salaries.
Around 600 employees who are having BTech, MTech and other degrees had been working in the company for the last one year. The company had charged them each with `20, 000 at the time of recruitment while stating that they would provide training for three months and later jobs in the company with the salary of ` 10, 000/15, 000 per month. Some of them had, however, been given jobs after two or three months of training, the complaint said. They were given salary of `7000 per month.
Joshi further said that they were demanding the pending salaries be cleared and the amount of `20,000 they had paid at time of training be returned to them at the earliest.