I was shocked when I read the news that Mr Ajay Sehgal, Chief Manager of PNB, Sector 20 Panchkula (Chandigarh) has committed suicide. The reports indicate that 51 year-old Chief Manager of Punjab National Bank (PNB) committed suicide by jumping in front of a train. He was apparently disturbed over constant harassment by his senior officials. It has already set ripples among the officers community in PNB. Some of the leaders have taken up the issue on social media, with top management also. I was wondering whether this should be an issue to be raised on this forum. Finally, I decided to share this with bankers across India as I feel the problem of harassment of junior officers is at banking industry level, and not merely confined to one bank – though the magnitude may be different in different banks. It seems PNB is one among the forefront. Although the final details of the suicide, reasons for the same and action taken by police and bank will be known only in days to come, yet the various news items, face book discussions have brought the following facts / comments in this case:- The Hindustan Times, Chandigarh correspondent has reported that Mr Ajay Sehgal, 51, Chief Manager at Punjab National Bank, has committed suicide by jumping in front of a train on the Chandigarh-Ambala track near Vikas Nagar. He has alleged humiliation at the hands of senior officials of PNB. It is further reported that the incident took place around 4.30pm on Wednesday (2nd July, 2014) and, on Thursday (3rd July, 2014), the post-mortem examination was conducted and cremation held. Another disturbing sentence in the report is “Before the police found out at 6.10pm on Wednesday, several trains had passed over the body”. I am giving below a clipping from the HT report to highlight the seriousness of the humiliation faced by our colleague:-
Posted on: Sat, 05 Jul 2014 02:49:35 +0000
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