BENGALURU/KOZHIKODE: Infosys has reportedly announced a compensation of `1 crore to the family of Rasila Raju O P, the techie who was killed on Sunday by a security guard on its Pune campus. Rasila’s relatives said that Infosys on Monday promised to pay `1 crore as ex-gratia, apart from provident fund and gratuity. “The company will also make all efforts to provide an offer of employment to a blood relative based on educational qualification,” it said.
Sources in the company told Express that as a policy, Infosys does not to disclose further details of the compensation. Even in past incidents of accidents, victims’ families were compensated, but the company did not announce it officially. However, pictures of an MoU on the compensation, signed by Infosys and Rasila’s relatives, were circulating on social media on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the body of the 24-year-old software engineer was brought from Pune to Kozhikode, where it was cremated.
Bhaben Saikia, the security guard who was arrested in connection with the murder, allegedly told the police that he tried to commit suicide after the crime, but changed his mind at the last moment.