Kiran Waghmare, the 44-year-old former general manager of bankrupt Cox and Kings, lost his battle to cancer last week. Bereaved, his family says he could have received the "best treatment possible" had the company paid his dues in lakhs.

mid-day had, on September 30, reported about the employees of Cox and Kings who had been struggling since being rendered jobless in September 2019. For Kiran, the grief was not just of losing the job, but also of finding that he had pancreatic cancer in December same year.