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Condemnable

The rape and murder of Prathiba Murthy, a young woman employee of a call centre in Bangalore, is highly condemnable. The culprit deserves no less than capital punishment. The call centres should provide temporary accommodation close to the place of work to their women employees working on night shifts.

Shujaath Ahmed,
Chennai

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The incident has exposed the conditions in which women employees of call centres work and travel to and from home. The IT industry, which managed to influence the governments to amend the labour laws to permit women to work on night shifts, has to strengthen the security arrangements for them.

S.M. Raviprakash,
Mysore

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