A deeply moving social media post by a retired Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) officer from Bengaluru has stirred widespread outrage after he described how he was forced to pay bribes at nearly every step while dealing with the death of his only child.

K Sivakumar, who identified himself as the former Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of BPCL, shared a post on LinkedIn recounting the trauma and corruption he encountered after his 34-year-old daughter Akshaya passed away.

Akshaya, who had spent eight years at Goldman Sachs and held degrees in B.Tech (Computer Science) and an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad, died at home on September 18, 2025, due to a brain haemorrhage.

In his post, now deleted, Sivakumar wrote that he was asked for bribes by nearly everyone involved — from the ambulance

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