A Booth Level Officer (BLO) in West Bengal’s Nadia district allegedly died by suicide on Saturday. Police said Rinku Tarafdar’s family found her hanging in her room at her home in Bangaljhi in Chapra, Krishnanagar.

An officer told news agency PTI that the family claimed she had been under heavy stress due to her Special Intensive Revision (SIR) workload. Police recovered a note from her room and sent the body for postmortem. A probe is underway.

Bengal minister Ujjal Biswas visited the family on Saturday.

Earlier this week, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had urged Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar to halt the SIR in Bengal. She wrote to him on Thursday, saying the continuous “unplanned and coercive drive” would endanger more lives and threaten the legitimacy of the exercise.

TM

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