This highlights the deep-rooted corruption in government offices that citizens face daily.
BENGALURU
A retired BPCL officer, K. Sivakumar, from Bengaluru, has stirred widespread outrage after narrating his harrowing experience of encountering corruption at every level following the death of his only daughter, Akshaya. In a now-deleted LinkedIn post, Sivakumar, a former Chief Financial Officer at BPCL, said his 34-year-old daughter, a Goldman Sachs employee and IIM Ahmedabad alumna, died of a brain hemorrhage on September 18, 2025.
Sivakumar recounted that he was forced to pay bribes to ambulance staff, police officials, crematorium workers, and BBMP personnel just to complete basic post-death formalities. “Recently my only child passed away at 34. The amount of open bribe being asked… ambulance, police for FIR and post-mortem, crematorium for receipts, BBMP for death certificate,” he wrote.
He alleged that the police demanded money for registering the FIR and providing the post-mortem report, showing no empathy toward his loss. “I had money, so I paid. What will the poor do?” he lamented. The ambulance driver allegedly charged ₹3,000 to transport his daughter’s body, while BBMP officials delayed issuing the death certificate until an additional payment was made, citing a “caste survey.”
Expressing anguish over the moral decay in public services, Sivakumar appealed to industry stalwarts like Narayana Murthy, Azim Premji, and Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw to intervene and “save this city” from corruption.
Following public outrage, Bengaluru’s Whitefield Police suspended a PSI and a constable from Bellandur Police Station, stating that the department “will not tolerate such indecent or inappropriate behaviour.”
Sivakumar’s account has since become a rallying cry for citizens demanding transparency, accountability, and reform in civic and police departments.
