Audio message from deceased Collectorate staff surfaces amid probe
An audio message from a deceased senior clerk at a Collectorate has surfaced, revealing she was under significant mental and physical stress due to work and home pressures. The District Collector has ordered a departmental inquiry to investigate the circumstances surrounding her death.
Why it matters
The case brings attention to workplace mental health and the need for administrative accountability in government institutions.
An audio message reportedly sent by senior clerk A. Ashalatha, who died recently, has surfaced in a WhatsApp group of Collectorate employees, indicating that she had been under considerable mental and physical stress due to problems at both home and office.
Ashalatha is understood to have sent the message explaining why she had not been participating in discussions in the employees’ group. In the message, she said that she supported everyone but was unable to actively participate in discussions because she was struggling mentally and physically under the prevailing circumstances.
“I am facing some problems, and I am under a lot of stress. It is because of matters at the office and at home,” she said in the message. She added that she was not in a state of mind to participate in discussions.
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