An Indian was fired for speaking in Hindi, a case was filed against the country’s Defense Minister along with the company

An Indian American engineer has claimed that he was fired from his job for speaking to a relative on the phone in Hindi. As per reports she was heard talking in Hindi on a video call with her brother-in-law in India. Reports say that she has now filed a lawsuit against the company alleging discriminatory practices. The incident happened last year when Indian American engineer Anil Varshney was overheard by his white colleague speaking in Hindi on a video call.

Reports say that last year he was fired from his long-standing job. He represented Parsons Corporation in the Northern District of Alabama and US Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin, whose department maintains the United States Missile Defense Agency, AL.com.

The lawsuit states that it arose out of the willful acts of the defendants to end Varshney’s highly prestigious engineering career. Varshney is a 78-year-old Indian American. Defendants abruptly fired Varshney after one of his white co-workers overheard him speaking Hindi. The lawsuit states that engineer Anil Varshney worked at the Parsons Huntsville office from July 2011 to October 2022. He was on a video call with his brother-in-law in an empty room for 2 minutes.

The company has said that he committed a security breach by using the FaceTime application at work and fired him. Varshney claims that there was no such policy on not taking calls. It is alleged in the lawsuit.