Kochi: A Keralite bank employee, who made derogatory remarks against Kathua girl who was brutally raped and killed, has been sacked.

Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd has sacked the assistant manager of their Kochi office, Vishnu Nandakumar.

Vishnu had courted controversy over his Facebook comments that said it was good that she (Kathua girl) was killed now, else she would throw bombs at India tomorrow.

Vishnu drew flak over his comments and scores of netizens posted comments on Kotak Mahindra's FB page and urged the company to sack him along with the hashtag 'dismiss_your_manager'. Mahindra on Friday evening issued a statement stating saying that Vishnu was sacked on April 11 for poor performance. They also condemned the derogatory remarks made by their 'ex-employee' Vishnu.

Vishnu has also deactivated his FB account.

The eight-year-old girl from the nomadic Bakerwal Muslim community had disappeared from near her house in Kathua district in Jammu and Kashmir on January 10. Her body was found a week later.

Protests have been raging since the brutality of the crime became public.

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