India, Sept. 14 -- An X user has written of his shock after a junior colleague died unexpectedly of a cardiac arrest at the age of 40. In a post shared on the social media platform, KV Iyyer said that his subordinate texted him with a leave request at 10:37 am and died 10 minutes later.

Iyyer described the colleague as a family man, just 40 years of age, who led a healthy lifestyle, never drank or smoked, was married and had a child.

Describing it as a "devastating incident", Iyyer wrote on September 13: "One of my colleagues, Shankar texted me today morning at 8.37 am with a message".

In his message, Shankar requested leave citing back pain. "Such type of leave requests, being usual, I replied 'Ok take rest'. And the day continued nor...