Innocent techie in jail, sues Airtel for Rs. 20 Crores
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Bangalore: A techie from Bangalore has sued Airtel for Rs. 20 crores. Airtel had given wrong information to the police which forced the techie to go to jail. "I have spent 50 horrible days in jail. You can't measure the trauma which I went through, my family went through," says Lakshman Kailash, a 28 year old engineer to CNN-IBN. 
Kailash was a successful software engineer with HCL and was working in Bangalore. Two years ago, Pune Police team in Bangalore had arrested him for 'defaming Shivaji' in a picture he was supposed to have put up on Orkut. Police was fed with wrong IP address by Airtel, who searched for the IP for two days. The police traced the IP, which belonged to Kailash and arrested him and did not let him go even after the police claimed to have caught the real culprits about two weeks after his arrest.
Maharashtra Human Rights Commission asked Airtel to cough up Rs. 2 lakh as compensation, but Airtel did not do so. Now, its top executives have been summoned by a magistrate court in Bangalore. "Its a small amount for them and I really don't understand why they are not paying up. They have to follow court orders. They are citizens of India, whether they think they are guilty or not is secondary," says Kailash.
Since Airtel has not paid any kind of compensation so far, Kailash has moved to National Consumer Disputes Forum and now seeks a compensation of Rs. 20 crores. "You can't scale those horrible moments in money. I feel it's a less amount with respect to the trauma I went through because I have to carry it throughout my life," says Kailash.
Kailash was a successful software engineer with HCL and was working in Bangalore. Two years ago, Pune Police team in Bangalore had arrested him for 'defaming Shivaji' in a picture he was supposed to have put up on Orkut. Police was fed with wrong IP address by Airtel, who searched for the IP for two days. The police traced the IP, which belonged to Kailash and arrested him and did not let him go even after the police claimed to have caught the real culprits about two weeks after his arrest.
Maharashtra Human Rights Commission asked Airtel to cough up Rs. 2 lakh as compensation, but Airtel did not do so. Now, its top executives have been summoned by a magistrate court in Bangalore. "Its a small amount for them and I really don't understand why they are not paying up. They have to follow court orders. They are citizens of India, whether they think they are guilty or not is secondary," says Kailash.
Since Airtel has not paid any kind of compensation so far, Kailash has moved to National Consumer Disputes Forum and now seeks a compensation of Rs. 20 crores. "You can't scale those horrible moments in money. I feel it's a less amount with respect to the trauma I went through because I have to carry it throughout my life," says Kailash.
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