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Infosys' woman software engineer strangled to death in her office in Pune, security guard arrested

New Delhi: Security guard of the Infosys building located in Pune has been arrested on Monday by the cops after a 25-year-old woman software engineer of Infosys was allegedly strangled to death by an unidentified person at her workstation in Rajiv Gandhi Infotech Park in Hinjawadi area on Sunday. Interrogation by police was going on. K Rasila Raju, who hailed from Kerala, was allegedly strangulated with the help of a computer wire. The incident took place on the ninth floor of the Infosys building. Image: K Rasila Raju, woman software engineer of Infosys who was strangled to death on Sunday, 29th January, 2016 at company's Pune office. Image: K Rasila Raju, woman software engineer of Infosys who was strangled to death on Sunday, 29th January, 2016 at company's Pune office. "The incident might have taken place around 5 PM but we received a call around 8 PM. Raju was employed as a software engineer by the firm," Assistant Commissioner of Police Vaishali Jadhav said. ALSO READ: Deeply saddened & shocked by tragedy: Tweets Infosys over murder of its female employee She said though it was Sunday, Rasila was working while her two teammates were online in Bengaluru. "Her manager was trying to call her, but there was no response. The manager called and asked the security guard to go and check and when the security guard went to see her, she was found unconscious near her workstation," the officer said. A case of murder has been registered against an unidentified person and investigation is on. Image: Infosys' Glass building in Pune campus/Courtesy-Wikipedia Image: Infosys' Glass building in Pune campus/Courtesy-Wikipedia About Infosys Infosys Limited is an Indian multinational corporation. It provides business consulting, information technology and outsourcing services and has the main headquarter in Bengaluru, India. It is the second-largest Indian IT services company by 2016 revenues. Infosys, reportedly, has the largest employer of H-1B visa professionals in the United States. On January 12, 2017, its market capitalisation was $34.38 billion. Infosys: CCTV tapes being collected As per the reports, officials were in the process of gathering the CCTV footage from the workplace and the campus of the IT major Infosys. Unsafe Pune: Second murder of a woman techie in the city Shockingly, in the last two months, this is the second murder of a woman techie in Pune. Antara Das (23), in December, techie from Kolkata working with Capgemini near Pune, was stabbed to death while returning from work late in the night. (With inputs from agencies)

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