Indian American Engineer Sues Alabama Company, Claims He Was Fired After Talking With Dying Brother in Hindi

An Indian American engineer says he was fired last year from his long-time job with a Huntsville missile defense contractor after he was heard speaking Hindi on the telephone.

Anil Varshney, a 78-year-old Indian American and long-time Senior Systems Engineer with Huntsville missile defense contractor Parsons Corporation recently filed a federal lawsuit alleging systemic discriminatory actions by the company that culminated in his firing last October after a white co-worker heard him speaking Hindi on a telephone call with his dying brother-in-law in India.

The co-worker “falsely reported [Varshney] for a violation of ‘security regulations’,” states the lawsuit, which was filed in June in the Northern District of Alabama.

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