Mumbai: A Nashik court has granted bail to Nida Khan, an accused in a case linked to alleged sexual harassment and attempted religious conversion of a former colleague at Tata Consultancy Services, ruling that forcing a pregnant woman to give birth in custody would cause “unbearable trauma.”
Additional Sessions Judge K.G. Joshi of Nashik Road Court, in an order dated July 6 and made public Thursday, held that childbirth in prison would cause a woman immense suffering, invoking a comparison to the birth of Lord Krishna in his ruling.
The Case
Khan is one of several accused in an FIR registered at Deolali Camp Police Station, part of a wider set of nine cases a Nashik Police Special Investigation Team is currently probing involving allegations of sexual exploitation, attempted forced religious conversion, and harassment of women employees at TCS’s Nashik unit. The FIR against Khan cites sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita covering sexual intercourse by deceitful means, sexual harassment, and outraging religious feelings, along with provisions of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, as the complainant belongs to the Dalit community.
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According to the prosecution, Khan and co-accused Danish Shaikh allegedly attempted to influence the complainant’s religious beliefs, including providing her with an Islamic religious text and a burqa, installing religious applications on her phone, and giving her instruction in Islamic religious practice. Public Prosecutor Vijay Gaikwad, representing the complainant alongside advocates Milind Kurkute and Nitin Pandit, argued the investigation had produced sufficient evidence of both sexual assault and religiously coercive conduct, and opposed bail.
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Why bail was granted
Khan’s counsel, Rahul Kasliwal, argued she had been falsely implicated and maintained her innocence, noting she had worked at TCS as an Associate before her termination in April 2026. The court, weighing that the investigation was complete and a charge sheet already filed, held her continued detention was not warranted, and granted bail on a personal bond of Rs 75,000 with a matching surety.
[With ANI Inputs]
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