A grieving father, Sivakumar K, retired chief financial officer of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL), in a now-deleted LinkedIn post, alleged he was forced to pay bribes at every stage, for an ambulance, filing an FIR, at cremation and also for the death certificate, after his daughter passed away.
Sivakumar lost his 34-year-old daughter to a brain haemorrhage in September, according to reports.
In the post, Sivakumar said, “Recently, my only child passed away at age 34. The amount of open bribe being asked by ambulance, police for FIR and post-mortem report, crematorium for giving receipt, BBMP office for death certificate. I paid.\"
He also said that an \"inspector at the Bellandur police station was so rude, with no empathy for a father who lost his only child.\"
Terming it a

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