Kolkata: Two persons died by suicide within a span of 24 hours in West Bengal's Malda district, allegedly triggered by fear and anxiety linked to the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, police said on Saturday.

On Friday night, a young man reportedly died after panicking over an error related to his father’s name on the Election Commission’s website. On Saturday morning, another man was found hanging at his residence, police said.

The second deceased has been identified as Abul Kalam. For reasons yet to be fully ascertained, he was unable to fill up the enumeration form under the SIR exercise. It is alleged that some of his neighbours frightened him by suggesting that he could be sent to a detention camp.

According to preliminary accounts, the fear of being sent to a det

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