{"id":944002,"date":"2025-07-05T07:37:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T02:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=944002"},"modified":"2025-07-05T07:57:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T02:27:52","slug":"infosys-techies-arrest-for-filming-women-sparks-calls-for-stricter-pre-onboarding-background-checks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/05\/infosys-techies-arrest-for-filming-women-sparks-calls-for-stricter-pre-onboarding-background-checks\/","title":{"rendered":"Infosys techie\u2019s arrest for filming women sparks calls for stricter pre-onboarding background checks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: The recent arrest of a 30-year-old Infosys techie, who was secretly filming women in the office restroom in Bengaluru, highlights the need for proper background verification (BGV) checks before onboarding employees. <\/p>\n<p>Corporates usually engage with third-party companies that specialise in providing verification checks of new recruits, and background verification is comprehensive in case of IT companies as it also includes criminal record checks, among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: The recent arrest of a 30-year-old Infosys techie, who was secretly filming women in the office restroom in Bengaluru, highlights the need for proper background verification (BGV) checks before onboarding employees. Corporates usually engage with third-party companies that specialise in providing verification checks of new recruits, and background verification is comprehensive in case of IT companies as it also includes criminal record checks, among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-944002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}