Kolkata, Nov 5, 2025

Another case of suicide allegedly due to the fear of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls, has been reported from West Bengal, said the police on Wednesday.

This time, a young man’s body was found hanging at his in-laws’ house at Bhangar in South 24 Parganas district. The family claimed that their son-in-law committed suicide allegedly out of fear of the SIR exercise. Police said that the deceased man’s name is Shafiqul Gazi.

Shafiqul’s wife told media persons that her husband had been in a state of panic for the past few days. He was not talking to anyone properly and had also stopped eating and drinking.

Sometimes he would sit with papers and would tell his wife that they did not have all the papers required for the SIR.

“He used to tell m

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