Ginger CEO Rahul Pandit fully exonerated of harassment charges

Indian Hotels Company (IHCL) fully exonerated and cleared Ginger CEO Rahul Pandit on charges of harassment based on a complaint by a women employee, multiple people with knowledge of the issue have told ET.

A female employee had filed a complaint against Rahul Pandit, the CEO of Roots Corporation citing inappropriate behaviour in March 2017. Roots runs the Ginger brand of budget hotels and is a IHCL subsidiary. The case was filed by the female employee who reported directly to Pandit. People close to the situation said that the complaint was later found to be false and motivated by the female employee as she was not performing well. Pandit was subsequently cleared on these charges.

Two people with direct knowledge of the matter said that Roots Corporation immediately had set up a POSH (Prevention of Sexual Harassment) committee and launched an investigation with internal and external members.


The committee cleared Pandit of all charges.

The Tata group companies’ POSH policies strictly follow the prescribed framework of the Sexual Harassment at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act 2013, and the Vishaka guidelines provided by the Supreme Court.