Bengaluru: IT giant Infosys is in the news for ‘gender insesitivity’. It has reprimanded a senior executive working in the secretarial and compliance team on grounds of ‘gender insensitivity’ after a few women employees working in the same department filed a sexual harassment complaint against him.

Women employees of the secretarial and compliance department circulated an email to all media houses saying that they could not divulge more details apart from the charges being serious as the company monitors all the incoming and outgoing mails.

On Thursday, Infosys confirmed the complaint, but denied taking any action against the employee. The company’s spokesperson said, “There was a complaint by a few women employees and the matter was investigated. An independent committee was appointed to look into the charges and they concluded that there was no case of sexual harassment but only a matter of ‘gender insensitivity.”

No changes have been made in personnel in the department.  All the dramatis personae in the complaint continue to hold their ground in the same department.  No further details of the complaint are known as both Infosys and the complainants are tight lipped, each for their own reasons.

“We take every sexual harassment complaint very seriously and each case is thoroughly and expeditiously investigated. Swift and appropriate actions are taken in all such cases. Keeping in view the privacy aspects, we do not share particulars of individual cases,” the spokesperson said.

This is not the first time Infosys is mired in a sexual harassment controversy.

In 2002, it had dismissed Phaneesh Murthy, who was then heading global sales for the company, on charges of sexual harassment.