London: An NRI scientist has filed a million pound racial discrimination case against his former boss Ian Wilmut who is famous for cloning Dolly the sheep.
Prim Singh, who works as a molecular biologist at the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh, has claimed that that he was bullied and forced to leave his job.
Singh said that he was passed over for promotion and given second-rate laboratory equipment because of his race. He also accuses his boss of stealing his ideas.
In the industrial tribunal in Edinburgh, lawyers for both sides argued about the admissibility of secret tape recorded by Singh.
The conversation was one of at least three recorded by Singh before he was dismissed from his 40,000 pounds per annum post in June 2004.
In another meeting, Singh claims he was told he could either ?resign or be fired?.
Singh?s lawyer Lawrence Davies said that the institute objected to the material being used because the content was quite damaging.
It showed that Bulfield told the scientist he should not take exception to Wilmut's behaviour, which could be attributed to ?high levels of testosterone?.
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