Kolkata, Nov 4 (PTI) A 30-year-old man in West Bengal's Howrah district died allegedly by suicide on Tuesday, as he was reportedly distressed over errors in his identity document amid the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, a police officer said.

Jahir Mal, a resident of Khalisani in Uluberia area, was found hanging in his residence in the morning.

The officer said that the family of the deceased informed the police that he was under severe stress after discovering a spelling error in one of his official documents.

He had visited local offices concerned over the past few weeks in an effort to correct the mistake but was unsuccessful, the officer said.

"Jahir feared that the error could lead to complications in verifying his citizenship or voter eligibility duri

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