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Indian Sacked in Saudi for Offensive Remarks Against Women Over Sabarimala Row
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Deepak Pavithram had posted misogynist and insensitive comments about women on social media.
An Indian man from Kerala was removed from his job in Saudi Arabia after he made “offensive” comments on social media against women over Sabarimala temple row in India, a UAE newspaper reported.
Deepak Pavithram, an Indian expat was employed at Lulu Hypermarket in Riyadh. He had posted misogynist and insensitive comments about women on social media. Pavithram later deleted his Facebook post after facing the criticism and anger, reported Khaleej Times.
V Nandakumar, Chief Communications Officer at Lulu Group told the publication, “We have a strict and zero tolerance policy with regard to our staff misusing social media to spread malicious or derogatory comments which might hurt religious sentiments. All GCC nations are home to a large cosmopolitan population from almost all countries in the world and we respect their sentiments, culture and religious beliefs.”
Other expats from Kerala in the Gulf appreciated the step Yusuff Ali MA, chairman and managing director of Lulu Group, took against offensive remarks for women, the publication reported.
It is not the first time when LuLu Group has fired someone over offensive remarks on social media. In August this year, they sacked a Keralite over his insensitive remarks about flood relief works in Kerala. He was employed with the group in Muscat, Oman.
The LuLu Group is owned by Yusuff Ali MA, a billionaire NRI who himself hails from Kerala. The company has a huge presence in the United Arab Emirates, and has footprints in Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Malaysia, and India.
Back in India, after the Supreme Court on Sept.28 allowed women of all ages into the popular temple in Kerala, protesters started opposing the decision.
On Oct.17, the situation in Nilakkal, base camp to Sabarimala became tense after the police used force against protestors. For hundreds of years, women of menstruating age were barred from the entering the temple and the apex court of the country had quashed this ban last month.