Tcs Engineer Dies By Suicide Names Three Colleagues In Note
Great Andhra
A 48-year-old Tata Consultancy Services employee in Pune died by suicide after allegedly facing prolonged harassment at work, police said. The deceased, identified as Amit Abhay Brahme, reportedly
left behind a two-page note naming three colleagues—two senior employees identified as Archana and Shashwati, and another employee named Vinod Palicha.
Police have registered a case of abetment to suicide against the three employees. No arrests have been made so far.
In the note, Brahme alleged that the two senior employees had been mentally harassing him and deliberately taking successful and high-quality projects away from him. He claimed that he was instead assigned extremely difficult tasks that could not be completed within the given deadlines.
He also alleged that he was repeatedly humiliated in front of his team and other employees and was constantly pressured to resign.
Brahme further accused Palicha, whom he considered a friend, of filing false complaints against him in an attempt to damage his reputation among colleagues at the company’s Hinjewadi campus.
Assistant Commissioner of Police Sudhakar Yadav said a case of abetment to suicide had been registered against all three people named in the note.
“We are conducting a thorough investigation into every technical and corporate aspect of the matter,” Yadav said.
The Nascent Information Technology Employees Senate, a registered trade union for IT employees in Maharashtra, has urged Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to examine whether companies have adequate systems to identify employee distress, address workplace complaints and prevent such incidents.
The organisation said Brahme had allegedly faced prolonged mental harassment and humiliation at work.
It also referred to the death of 24-year-old TCS employee Sujal Vinod Oswal, who was found dead on the company’s Hinjewadi campus in January.
NITES said that two employee deaths linked to the same corporate establishment within a few months should not be ignored or treated as routine incidents.
The allegations made in Brahme’s note are under police investigation. TCS and the employees named in the case had not issued a detailed public response at the time of reporting.