Barclays challenges ruling it ‘retaliated’ against whistleblower in India

Barclays is seeking to overturn a ruling by an Indian court that found the British bank had retaliated against a whistleblower, legal filings show. Barclays' whistleblowing policy "appears to be in existence only on paper", a District Court in the western Indian city of Pune said in a March 28 judgment published online, which was seen by Reuters and is reported here for the first time. The Pune court ordered Barclays to pay Atul Gupta two years' salary, totalling around 9,600,000 Indian rupees ($115,620), saying the bank's Indian service company had made him redundant "in retaliation to his whistleblowing act".