Bach baliye if you are in bangalore??

When I reached office, I went through the mails pertaining to my work. Neck deep in work. One of my team mate asked permission to leave early as wanted to attend cremation for one of our colleague. He referred to one of the mail by head (india) which I had not read. I was in hurry to finish up few things and said ok to him. When I got time to go through all the mails, I was shocked to read the mail in which one female Call centre employee was assaulted and murdered by cab driver in early morning. The incident is covered here by ET.

I dont know whether you can blame on organisation for not providing enough security to its employees(specially females working in night shifts.) Before this incident, it was considered to be safer to go by a company cab than by your own vehicle during nighttime. It will be very difficult for any organisation to provide a security guard for each cab. But few things can be definitely done by the organisation to avoid such kind of incidents:

• Give contract to only those drivers whose antecedents have been verified by police. (I dont know whether this would have helped in this case. But with this process in place, it will definitely reduce the chances of such criminal activities happening)
• Try that no female is going alone in the cab during nighttime. Try to club more employees
• Also make sure the female has reached home or office within expected time by calling her mobile/home number during nighttime. If that doesnt happen, raise an alarm.

This incident is definitely going to have an effect of rest of the female employees (specially from orthodox family) working in late night shifts, if no appropriate action is taken by Organisations.