A woman working as a booth-level officer in Mal block of West Bengal’s Jalpaiguri was found hanging outside her home on Wednesday morning, reported The Telegraph .

The family of Shanti Muni Ekka alleged that she was overworked due to door-to-door visits she had to make for the special intensive revision of electoral rolls in the state.

West Bengal was among 12 states and Union Territories where the Election Commission began the enumeration phase of the exercise on November 4.

Ekka was given the responsibility to distribute the enumeration forms in the 101 booth in Rangamati gram panchayat. However, she could not speak, read or write Bangla, which made her work difficult, according to The Telegraph .

“Since the SIR exercise started she had to leave every morning at 7 am and coul

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