My Younger Colleague And Me

Am writing down this now even though am very busy with my daughter's wedding. I won't be able to sleep a wink if I wouldn't have written today. Yesterday was my daughter's wedding day and it was celebrated very simply as the Covid-19 issues are going on now. We wished to celebrate her wedding ceremony as a grand function with all the invitees in our mansion. But there were only 20 people who attended the wedding rituals besides me n my husband. For our colleagues, friends and relatives we have arranged parties at different time date. And today evening was the reception for our colleagues. I and my husband are doing business together and ours is one of the leading textile businesses all over India. But before we started it we was in different fields. I worked as an asst. manager in a co-operate company and he worked as a Bank manager. A bunch of our colleagues were there in the reception auditorium (different time slots were there as we are also concerned about the pandemic) today evening. I was feeling somewhat awkward and unpleasant when one face appeared in front of me. The owner of that face was my colleague. Mr Abhay Shergil.

Let me take you to the flashback...

Mr Abhay Shergil was appointed as our superior manager directly. He was 11years younger than me and I was still in asst. manager's post. Mr Abhay was very friendly and jovial. Moreover, he had a knack for saying things in a special way that the other person would believe him very easily. All our staff really admired him as he seemed very perfect in every aspect. He entertained almost all our colleagues and he was always ready to offer help to others. I also respected him. Within a few days, we became friends. But Nitha, who was my best friend in the office didn't like him. She used to tell me not to be so friendly with him as she feels sometimes his looks are not so decent. Days passed... 

It was a hectic day and Nitha was getting ready to leave the office after finishing her tiring work. Everyone except Nitha has already left the office. I was half the way to ma home and suddenly I remembered that I forgot my mobile. I went back to my office and I saw Nitha was going out. I told her to wait and went inside. While I was coming back I saw Mr Abhay was there with Nitha and he grabbed her breast She was scared out of her wit. That sight is still seared into my memory. I screamed and he flew away.

 I planned to ask him directly but Nitha requested me not to do so and I bottled out. She took a promise from me to seal my lip about that matter as she felt if others come to know about this, she can't face them and she left the job. I have been up and down this lane quite a few times, but nobody has groped me yet. His area of interest were (are) groping women, pinching and slapping women's bodies etc. Nobody dared to open up. Years passed. I forgot that incident. Everything came back to normal. 

Only one thing I wanted to share now ........Everyone is at fault. speak up, It beats me why people who need to step in are not showing the guts to do so... Don't let our girls be scarred and scared...