US-based IT firm’s CEO assaulted in Noida

The identity of the assailants is not known.

NOIDA: The chief executive officer (CEO) in India of a US-based software firm was dragged out of his car and attacked in Noida, police said Saturday, four days after the India CEO of an Italian firm was lynched by workers in nearby Greater Noida.

Kashir Dwivedi, 37, the CEO of Expedience e-solutions India was waylaid Friday night on a road in Noida, while he drove to a Sai Baba temple.  The company he heads has its global headquarters at Houston, Texas.

Dwivedi said: “I had left my office in Noida Sector 63 around 9.30 pm. Four men in a Tavera overtook my car and parked in such a way that my vehicle got trapped. “They tried to open my doors. Since they had been automatically locked, they smashed the window with an iron rod and dragged me out.

“They tried to pick me up and push me into their car. I resisted and kept rolling on the road to avoid them, shouting for help.

“By this time, a crowd had assembled. So the men fled after hitting me on the head with the iron rod. My wife later took me to the Kailash hospital (nearby).” Dwivedi who was under observation in the hospital through the night and discharged Saturday.

A resident of Sector 61 in Noida where his office is located, Dwivedi’s wife said,”This city seems unsafe.” Noida’s Senior Superintendent of Police said a case had been registered and efforts were on to trace the four attackers.

"This incident shows that law and order in UP has collapsed," said Sajjan Jindal, president, Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham).”