A booth level officer (BLO) in West Bengal’s Nadia district was founder dead at her residence on Saturday morning. Her family members alleged that she had been under extreme stress due to her special intensive revision (SIR) workload, police told PTI.

The BLO, identified as Rinku Tarafdar, was found hanging from the ceiling of her room at her home in the Bangaljhi area of Chapra, Krishnanagar.

“The family is claiming that she was under immense pressure due to her SIR workload. We have recovered a note from her room. The body has been sent for postmortem. A necessary probe is underway,” an officer told PTI.

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee expressed shock over the incident on social media. Taking to X, she wrote, “Profoundly shocked to know of the death of yet another BLO, a

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