Kodinar: A school teacher deployed to work as a Booth Level Officer (BLO) allegedly died by suicide in Gujarat’s Gir Somnath district on Friday, with his family claiming that he left a note citing “mental stress and exhaustion” due to the SIR of electoral rolls as reasons behind the extreme step.

The teacher, Arvind Vadher, hanged himself at his house in Devli village of Kodinar taluka at around 6.30 am, an official said.

Vadher was a teacher at a government primary school in Chhara village in Kodinar, and was recently assigned the duty as a BLO for the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise.

In the purported suicide note addressed to his wife, Vadher blamed the SIR duty for taking the extreme step.

“It is now impossible for me to do this SIR work anymore. I have been feeli

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