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A senior businesswoman was told by her IT firm boss that she looked like a "seductive dancer from Indian mythology" who "had the curves of a Russian body and big breasts", a tribunal was told.

Shreya Ukil claimed she was pressurised into having a sexual relationship by Manoj Punja, a senior colleague at the IT and outsourcing firm Wipro, before being forced out and sacked after the company refused her resignation.

Ms Ukil, 40, from Kensington, west London, said she was "belittled", bullied , sexually hounded and harassed at the company, where she said there was a "deeply predatory, misogynistic culture".

Wipro, an IT partner of Chelsea football club and which has offices in London and Bangalore, India, fostered an atmosphere which "requires women to be subservient" Ms Ukil said.

In a witness statement to the Central London Employment Tribunal she said had suffered because she is "a woman, an Indian woman and one who submitted to the advances of a senior, powerful man in the company with friends at the top", and that she was singled out because she "dared to complain that she had been the victim of discrimination, intimidation and harassment".

Ms Ukil is bringing a case against Wipro for sex and race discrimination, victimisation, sexual harassment, unfair dismissal and wrongful dismissal.