MEERUT/BAREILLY: Uttar Pradesh's ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) drive took another grim turn this week, with a BLO dying of brain haemorrhage in Bareilly, another attempting suicide in Meerut, and a primary school teacher in Bulandshahr threatening to take her life over what she described as unbearable pressure linked to the SIR work. With these cases, the number of BLO deaths across UP in the past 12 days has risen to 10, including three suicides. In Bareilly, MB Inter College spokesperson and BLO Ajay Agarwal, 51, died late Monday night after returning home from SIR duty. His family alleged that he had been under "intense stress since being assigned the data-feeding work" on Nov 24 and was struggling to complete it on a basic mobile phone. His son, Prakhar, said, "He told

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