HDFC Bank employee falls from chair in office, dies; colleagues allege 'work pressure'
Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav said the news of people allegedly dying due to work pressure and stress is a symbol of the current economic pressure in the country
Just days after the news went viral of a young EY employee in Pune who died allegedly due to overwork comes a report of an HDFC Bank employee in Lucknow who fell off her chair in the office and died on Tuesday (September 24).
The bank employee, identified as Sadaf Fatima, was rushed to the hospital by her colleagues, where the doctors declared her dead. The police have reportedly sent the body for a post mortem.
Some of Fatima’s colleagues were quoted by Lokmat Times Nagpur as saying “work pressure” could be a reason for her death. She was an Additional Deputy Vice President at the bank’s Vibuti Khand branch in Gomtinagar.
Extremely worrying: Akhilesh Yadav
Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav in a post on X called the incident “extremely worrying”. He said the news of people allegedly dying due to work pressure and stress is a symbol of the current economic pressure in the country. He said all companies and government departments should think seriously about this, and that such sudden deaths bring into question the working conditions. The SP chief said it is an irreparable loss of India’s human resources.
Yadav also slammed the “failed economic policies” of the BJP and its government at the centre. He said the central government was as much responsible for such sudden deaths as “the statements of BJP leaders that mentally demoralise the public”.
He called for active and meaningful efforts by companies and government departments for “immediate improvement”.
The EY case
In the case of the 25-year-old employee of EY who died in Pune, her mother, in a letter to the EY India chairman Rajiv Memani, said “the workload, new environment, and long hours took a toll on her physically, emotionally, and mentally.
In response to her death, EY said it was treating the family’s correspondence with utmost seriousness and humility and said it would continue to find ways to improve and provide a healthy workplace for its employees in India.
