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Kolkata: Another man has committed suicide in Birbhum district in the Indian state of West Bengal after being distressed over the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls initiated by the Election Commission of India (ECI).<\/p>\nKolkata: Another man has committed suicide in Birbhum district in the Indian state of West Bengal after being distressed over the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls initiated by the Election Commission of India (ECI).<\/p>\n
According to Kashmir Media Service, according to police, a 95-year-old man took his own life in the Illambazar area of the district, fearing that his name would be deleted from the voters\u2019 list during the revision process.<\/p>\n
Birbhum Superintendent of Police, Amandeep said, \u201cWe have come to know that an elderly person from West Midnapore district has committed suicide in Birbhum\u2019s Illambazar. His name is Kshitish Majumdar. He had come to his relative\u2019s house in the Illambazar police station area. We have learnt that the reason for the suicide appears to be linked to the fear of SIR. However, no written complaint has been filed by the family so far.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police said the body of the nonagenarian was found hanging from a house in Subhaspally School, Bagan, in Illambazar. The deceased, originally a resident of Kora Para village under Kotwali police station in West Midnapore district, had been living at his daughter\u2019s house in Illambazar for the past five to six months.<\/p>\n
Family members said Majumdar had been deeply anxious ever since the ECI announced the SIR of West Bengal\u2019s electoral rolls. His name, they said, was missing from the 2002 voters\u2019 list, and he feared being declared a foreigner and sent back to Bangladesh.<\/p>\n
This is the second reported incident in the state where a person has taken their own life over fears related to the SIR process.<\/p>\n
Earlier this week, Pradeep Kar, a resident of Panihati in North 24 Parganas district, reportedly committed suicide on Tuesday out of fear surrounding the NRC-SIR exercise, as mentioned in a suicide note recovered by police.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, in another incident, a 60-year-old man, identified as Khairul Sheikh from Dinhata in Cooch Behar district of north Bengal, attempted suicide on Wednesday by consuming poison, fearing that his name might be deleted from the electoral rolls during the SIR.<\/p>\n
According to Sheikh\u2019s family members, he was worried that due to a spelling error in his name in the 2002 voters\u2019 list, his name could be omitted from the revised electoral rolls. The groundwork for the SIR exercise is scheduled to begin from November 4.<\/p>\n
The Trinamool Congress (TMC) had criticised the BJP-led New Delhi government and the ECI over Kar\u2019s death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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