A 52-year-old Booth Level Officer engaged in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls was found hanging at her residence in Krishnagar on Saturday morning, with a handwritten suicide note that directly blamed the Election Commission of India (ECI) for the “inhuman workload” she said she could no longer endure.

The deceased, Rinku Tarafdar, a para-teacher at Vivekananda Vidyamandir High School and the BLO for Booth No. 201 under Chapra Assembly constituency (AC-82), had been living with her husband, businessman Asish Tarafdar, and their two children at their residence in Krishnagar’s Sasthitala area. According to police, her body was found hanging from the ceiling of a room on the second floor of the house early in the morning.

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