HDFC bank employee dies after falling off chair in Lucknow office, colleagues allege ‘work pressure’

A forty 5-year-old HDFC Bank employee, identified as Sadaf Fatima, died under mysterious circumstances while at work in Lucknow, in line with police reports. Fatima, who held the position of Additional Deputy Vice-President on the bank’s Vibuti Khand branch in Gomti Nagar, reportedly collapsed from her chair and passed away instantly. Despite being rushed to a nearby sanatorium, she became declared dead upon arrival, and her body became sent for a post-mortem examination to see the explanation within the back of death.

This tragic incident follows the same case involving an Ernst & Young employee in Pune, sparking concerns about workplace pressure. Reports from Dainik Bhaskar and other sources suggest that Fatima’s colleagues claimed she became experiencing work pressure.

“Additional Deputy VP of HDFC Bank in Vibhutikhand, Sadaf Fatima (forty 5), dies under suspicious circumstances while working. The panchnama (record of observation) of her body has been filled, and it has been sent for postmortem. The reason within the back of death will likely be clear after the postmortem,” Vibhutikhand Assistant Commissioner of Police Radharaman Singh told news agency ANI.

Reacting to the incident, Samajwadi Celebration (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav said the work pressure and stress has change into the identical all over from government to deepest jobs and folks are working out of ‘compulsion’.

“The condition of employed people has change into worse than bonded labourers because they do no longer even have one of many most best to speak. Government is there to resolve problems, no longer to offer baseless suggestions,” Akhilesh Yadav posted X.

The SP chief took a dig at finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s most up-to-date suggestion that the formative years under work pressure need lessons on stress ‘management’.

“As against making improvements to the working conditions, the BJP minister who is lecturing the formative years of the usa to develop the strength to withstand pressure, is in the same way distressing the formative years at some point of this environment of grief, and is requested that if her government cannot provide any solace, cannot set off any improvement, then it'll no longer do so, but should no longer enlarge public anger with its heartless and insensitive advice inside of the context of this incident,” he wrote.

लखनऊ में काम के दबाव और तनाव के कारण एचडीएफ़सी की एक महिलाकर्मी की ऑफिस में ही, कुर्सी से गिरकर, मृत्यु का समाचार बेहद चिंतनीय है।

ऐसे समाचार देश में वर्तमान अर्थव्यवस्था के दबाव के प्रतीक हैं। इस संदर्भ में सभी कंपनियों और सरकारी विभागों तक को गंभीरता से सोचना होगा। ये देश के… %twitter.com/Xj49E01MSs

— Akhilesh Yadav (@yadavakhilesh) September 24, 2024

Earlier in July, a 26-year-old woman named Anna Sebastian Perayil, a chartered accountant, tragically died resulting from alleged work stress just four months after joining Ernst & Young (EY) in Pune. Following her death, Sebastian’s mother wrote a letter in September to Rajiv Memani, the Chairman of EY India, accusing the firm of imposing excessive workloads and long working hours, which she claimed severely impacted her daughter’s health.

Despite the allegations, EY denied any connection between the corporate’s working conditions and Sebastian’s death. This incident has sparked renewed debates about the mental and physical toll that top-pressure work environments, specially in professional services firms, can have on employees, highlighting the need for better beef up systems in such settings.