The organized TCS religious conversion scandal had sent shockwaves in India’s corporate sector, and similar allegations have now surfaced at another top IT major.
A former Wipro employee has come forward with a detailed account claiming she was systematically pressured to convert to Islam, engage in sexual relationships, and ultimately fired after she refused and raised a formal complaint. She has now filed a written complaint at Hinjewadi police station in Pune, and says the police have confirmed they will investigate.
What The Former Employee Alleges
The woman employee described her ordeal in an interaction with the media. “On April 24th, I had sent them a notice asking them to explain why I was dismissed — especially given that I had been forced to convert my religion, and that no action was taken against the person I had complained about,” she said.
She names a colleague, Shahina Rafiq, as the person who initiated the coercion from her very first day at the company. According to the former employee, only three Hindu women were part of the team, while the majority of the staff — who, she alleges, had a strong hold over management and clients — were Muslim.
Her account of the harassment is methodical and escalating. “(Shahina Rafiq) first told me to enter into a physical relationship with Ramkumar. After that, she would constantly call me saying, ‘How are you living alone without sex and without all of this?’ Then she told me to marry a Sheikh, and lured me by saying that Sheikhs treat women so well — you’ll have a house, a car, a bungalow, everything. You’ll have children too. Why are you living this painful life?”
When she formally emailed Shahina Rafiq’s manager, Asif, in the first week of May — after the harassment had started in April — no replacement or relief was provided. The alleged harassment continued from April through July.
She was later told by HR manager Zishan Ahmed and others on the team that any complaint she raised would go nowhere:
“I was warned beforehand by HR manager Zishan Ahmed and others that even if you complain, the complaint will not reach anywhere — it will end right there. The problem will be yours.”
She alleges that Shahina Rafiq herself subsequently raised a grievance against her — a counter-complaint that she says was designed to preempt and discredit her own account. She was ultimately terminated from her position.
“While working at the company, immense and systematic mental pressure was exerted on me to embrace Islam and establish physical relations with a Muslim man. When I firmly rejected this anti-religious and unethical proposition and lodged an official complaint with the company administration, instead of taking action against the accused, the management unjustly terminated my employment,” she says.
The TCS Case: A Precedent That Raised The Stakes
The Wipro allegations arrive in the shadow of the TCS Nashik conversion case, one of the most disturbing corporate scandals in recent Indian memory. In April 2026, multiple employees at TCS’s BPO campus in Nashik filed FIRs covering a period stretching from 2022 to 2026. Six employees — Asif Ansari, Shafi Sheikh, Shah Rukh Qureshi, Raza Memon, Tausif Attar, and Danish Sheikh — had built a WhatsApp group to systematically identify and target young Hindu women from economically vulnerable backgrounds, initiating physical relationships before pressuring them to convert. Victims were forced to offer namaz, eat beef, and adopt Islamic practices including wearing a burqa and observing Ramzan fasts. The Nashik Police formed an SIT, deployed seven women officers undercover inside the facility for 42 days, and ultimately arrested seven people, including an Assistant General Manager who had ignored a verbal complaint from one of the victims.
The case then escalated to national agencies — the NIA, ATS, and Intelligence Bureau were called in to determine whether the operation had external funding and whether it was part of a conspiracy beyond Nashik. Nida Khan, one of the accused, had been absconding for more than a month, before the police discovered that she had been aided in eluding the cops by a local AIMIM corporator, after which she was subsequently arrested.
A Pattern Emerging?
The TCS case prompted protests at the Nashik office, with demonstrators also flagging that a woman had raised similar complaints at TCS’s Pune office — allegations that were allegedly ignored.
Now, the former Wipro employee’s complaint surfaces from Hinjewadi, Pune. Her account shares several structural similarities with the TCS case: a minority-dominated team with alleged management influence, a targeted Hindu woman employee, escalating pressure combining sexual coercion with religious inducements, HR complicity or inaction, a counter-complaint filed to neutralize her grievance, and eventual termination.
She alleges that the coercion was coordinated — that management itself cultivated certain women employees to facilitate the pressure campaign — and that internal complaint mechanisms were explicitly told to her as futile.
The Hinjewadi police have acknowledged her complaint and confirmed an investigation will follow. And If the Wipro allegations are borne out by investigation, they raise an uncomfortable question: how many more such cases exist in India’s vast IT sector, unreported by employees who have already been warned, as this former employee was, that their complaints will go nowhere?