Call Center Women To Be Armed With Pepper Spray
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BANGALORE, India (AFP) — Several Indian information-technology companies are ordering cans of pepper spray for their female call centre employees to use against possible attackers, a newspaper reported Tuesday.
The move follows the rape-murder last month of a 22-year-old call centre employee in the western city of Pune by a company driver, leading to fears of safety in an industry that employs 1.6 million people.
A similar incident took place in this southern Indian city, the hub of the 50 billion dollar IT industry, in December 2005.
“Several companies have approached us asking us to deliver the product,” the Bangalore Mirror quoted Rana Singh, an executive at a company that makes a self-defence pepper spray, as saying.