Update: Read Part 1 here. Also, the crisis has ended: details here Politicians helping “resolve” the conflict “Call whoever is in charge. It doesn’t take 2 days to get to Pune from Mumbai,” the politician told TinyOwl co-founder Gaurav Choudhary. Choudhary was being held against his will at TinyOwl’s Pune office by employees who were being laid off. The Pune office had been opened in January this year with 40 employees. Out of this, 15 had been sacked in September. The rest of the staff was made up of marketing and business development employees and delivery personnel. Now the police were there and so were local members of political parties, trying to help “resolve” the dispute. The police asked Choudhary about the company's board of directors and Choudhary identified two: Harshvardhan Mandad and Sourabh Goyal. Trying to "help", one of the political party members said, “don’t pay the employees right away. (Instead) Give them one month’s salary tomorrow, and one post dated cheque for the rest of the amount.” Accompanying the proposed resolution was a threat. He told the assembled policemen, “We want to register a complaint in his (Choudhary’s) name. We’ll write an application from all the employees. They’re staging an andolan (protest) here. Till then, whatever your procedure is, you go ahead with it. You take him to the police station. Two of us will go with you, but these employees are not going to leave the office premises. Now you can listen to what Choudhary has to say,” he said dismissively. Given…
