Extravagant life costs techies their family life

KAZHAKOOTTAM: Unfortunately, carefree, lavish life of certain employees in Techno Park has ruined their family life, sometimes in its worst forms. The recent gruesome murder in Attingal, where a woman techie’s paramour ruthlessly killed her mother-in law and kid, is a clear example for this.

Though many such incidents have occurred in the past, many of them have been gone unreported for fear of humiliation that it would have brought to the parties concerned.     

Techies work in an atmosphere, in day/night shifts, when they get a lot of opportunities to mingle and hang around with friends. There have been instances when colleagues get so intimate that they forget about their spouse and children. Certain “extramarital relationships” have even ended up in paramours committing crime like the one which happened at Alamcode (Attingal).   

However most of the employees are people with fine reputation without any kind of “illegal” relationship. They say that it is the employees coming from other states who most often indulge in such relationships. They feel these ‘immigrants’ have invariably brought bad name to all the employees in the Techo Park. They also complain that some woman employees do not get transport facilities and hence they have to walk long distances through deserted roads, sometimes in the night also, to reach their hostels. Thus women’s security also is at peril.  

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