Dubai: An Indian man in Dubai has been fired after he uploaded a video on Facebook in which he threatened to kill Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan and rape his family.
A senior HR manager at Abu Dhabi-based Target Engineering Construction company told XPRESS they terminated the services of their rigging supervisor K. Nair, 56, on Wednesday morning shortly after the video was brought to the management’s notice by XPRESS.
“The action was taken in keeping with our company policy which has zero-tolerance for such behaviour,” the firm’s senior HR operations specialist said.
Nair, who hails from Kerala, has been working with the company in the GCC for four years but had relocated to the UAE just last year.
Inciting video
In the video, laced with racist slurs and abuses, Nair can be heard talking in his native Malayalam. Describing himself as the sympathiser of a right wing organisation in India, Nair says he will quit his job, clean his old weapons and use them when he returns home to murder the Kerala chief minister. He also makes rape threats against the politician’s family. Following backlash, Nair deleted the video but by then it had already gone viral on the internet.
On Wednesday afternoon, he posted another video in which he apologised for his action, saying he was inebirated. But it was too little too late. Last year another Keralite was fired for posting offensive Facebook messages against Indian journalist Rana Ayyub. B.B, 31, worked at Alpha Paint in Dubai, a sister company of National Paints in Sharjah. People who post abusive messages on social media can be tried under the UAE Cybercrime law which stipulates stiff penalties such as jail terms and/or fines between Dh50,000 and Dh3 million.
