What is it about the Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Nashik case that makes it seem unbelievable? Taken separately, every allegation against the seven Muslims and one Hindu is perfectly believable. But the sum of these separate parts coming together in one small office?
To take each allegation one by one:
Accused Danish Shaikh is not the first married man to lead on a girl and then cry off when his wife intervenes. His being a Muslim is irrelevant to the offence he’s accused of.
Nor is he the first man who "influenced" his girlfriend to follow his religious practices. It’s worth noting that she continued with the relationship for four years, breaking it only when she discovered he was married.
Less common, but not unknown, is for a girl to adopt her lover’s religious practices. Indeed, love is not the only reason for some Hindus to fast during Ramzan, as this reporter found way back in 2008.
Nor is the TCS management the first to ignore complaints of sexual harassment.
Even the allegation of conversion isn’t unbelievable. Propagation of their faith is enjoined upon the followers of both Christianity and Islam. Both believe that those who do not follow these religions land up in hell. Suggestions by overzealous believers to their Hindu friends that the latter save themselves from hell fire by following "the one true faith’’ are not unheard of. But this is in no way forced conversion.