A woman working as a booth-level officer was found hanging in her home in Krishnanagar in West Bengal’s Nadia district on Saturday morning, PTI reported.
An unidentified police officer told the news agency that the family of Rinku Tarafdar alleged that she had been under immense pressure due to her workload for the special intensive revision of electoral rolls in the state.
“We have recovered a note from her room,” the officer said, adding that an investigation was underway.
West Bengal is among 12 states and Union Territories where the Election Commission began the enumeration phase of the exercise on November 4.
Four suspected suicides have been reported in the country during the special intensive revision of voter rolls.
In a social media post, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee

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