ICICI Bank sends legal notice to HDFC Bank official Mandeep Maitra
Jul 13th, 2009 | By admin | Category: Breaking News, Business News, India News, Mumbai NewsICICI Bank, has shot off a legal notice to Mandeep Maitra, a senior official of HDFC Bank, for airing views on ICICI in a business magazine. Mandeep Maitra, who is the head of human resources at HDFC Bank, told the magazine that she was careful in hiring people from ICICI Bank simply because she did not want the “ICICI culture” to seep into the bank she works for.
The contents of the story say that in each one of the past three years HDFC Bank had attracted around 900 officials from ICICI Bank. In some places, almost the entire top brass of an ICICI Bank branch would walk in for interviews. Ms Maitra is alleged to have said, “Of course, the first thing I ask is “How many of you are from ICICI Bank? I do not want that culture out here”.
ICICI Bank has taken offense to this comment. The notice seeks an apology from Ms Maitra and was sent to her in her individual capacity and not to the bank, something an ICICI Bank official clarified.