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American taxi hailing company Uber has asked Amit Singhal, Senior Vice-President of Engineering division, to leave after he failed to disclose that he left Google a year earlier over sexual harassment allegations. The charges raised by a Google staffer were found to be “credible”, according to a report in Recode.

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick asked Singhal to resign, according to the report.

Singhal’s ouster comes at a time when Uber found itself amid another unrelated sexual harassment crisis. A former Uber employee, Susan Fowler, had alleged that her prospects at the company were dented after she raised a sexual harassment complaint against her boss. Fowler had said that Uber’s human resources department ignored her complaint.

Meanwhile, quoting its sources, Recode reported that Uber did extensive background checks on Singhal but didn’t come across any “hint” of the circumstances of his departure from Google.



Singhal quit as the Senior Vice-President of Google's Internet search business at Alphabet Inc on February 26.