SIR fear: Another person commits suicide

On the day the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls began across West Bengal, one person allegedly committed suicide due to the fear of the exercise.

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An official said that a contract worker from Uluberia in Howrah district committed suicide.

On Tuesday, over 80,000 booth-level officers (BLOs) began visiting homes to distribute enumeration forms as part of the SIR exercise.

According to the police, the deceased has been identified as Zaheer Mal, a resident of the Khalisani Gram Panchayat area of Uluberia Purba Assembly constituency.

The 28-year-old youth worked as a daily wage labourer. Officers of Uluberia police station recovered his hanging body from his house.

However, no suicide note was recovered from the house. The family claimed that Zaheer was in fear of SIR and therefore took his life.