Pune: Taking action for throwing out a homeless child from its restaurant in Pune, McDonalds on Saturday suspended the staff member involved in the incident.
The action comes after the Maharashtra government intervened in the matter. Earlier in the day, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said that the government will gather the information and take steps against the people involved in the incident.
Promising an enquiry, McDonalds in a statement said, "McDonalds India is investigating internally an issue that has been reported on an incident involving a street child. The concerned security personnel involved in the incident have been suspended pending completion of an enquiry."
Describing the incident on her Facebook page, a woman Shaheena Attarwala had said that she along with some of her friends had gone to the fast food outlet when they met the child. Curiously looking at the Coke floats that she and her friends had bought, the child in sheer innocence asked if he could have some.
Shaheena went inside the restaurant with the child and asked him whether he would want to stand in the line with her to which he agreed. The McDonalds staff, however, was pushed away.
A worker from the restaurant took objection to the street kid being inside the outlet and said that "these kind of people are not allowed inside".
Shaheena said, "I was accompanying the child in the restaurant. One employee came, grabbed the child by the collar and threw him out. An employee told me the restaurant doesn't allow 'such people' entry."
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