After the untimely demise of Anna Sebastian Perayil, a promising young professional at Ernst & Young (EY), Mumbai, Lucknow, and Jhansi are other cities where suspected cases of work pressure deaths have been reported.
Tarun Saxena, Sushant Chakravarty, and Sadaf Fatima all posted in BFSI sector lost their lives allegedly due to work pressure.
Saxen in his early 40s worked with Bajaj Finance as an area manager in Jhansi found dead on September 30. He committed suicide due to the alleged work pressure he faced from his seniors in the past two months. He was reportedly threatened with a salary deduction because of his targets.
Sada Fatmia, an additional deputy vice-president at HDFC Bank’s Vibhuti Khand branch in Lucknow died of a heart attack due to alleged work pressure on September 24.
In another case of alleged work pressure death, Sushant Chakravarty a deputy manager of a nationalised bank, committed suicide by jumping off the Atal Setu in Mumbai on September 30.