Infosys loses arbitration case against Rajiv Bansal over severance package

The company said the arbitral award remained confidential

Infosys, the country’s second-largest information technology services firm, has lost an arbitration battle against its former chief financial officer Rajiv Bansal over his severance package.

The arbitration tribunal has directed the IT firm to pay Bansal the pending amount of Rs 121.70 million with interest. Infosys’s counterclaim for refunding the previously paid severance amount of Rs 52 million has also been rejected. Law experts and corporate governance professionals are of the opinion that Infosys has a limited scope of contesting the award in a higher court, as the company will have to convince the court with fresh reasons for admissibility of