KOLKATA: A woman working as a Booth Level Officer (BLO) in West Bengal’s Nadia district was found dead at her residence on Saturday morning.The family members alleged that she had been under considerable SIR work-related stress and died by suicide.According to police, the BLO was identified as Rinku Tarafdar, who was found hanging from the ceiling of her room at her home in the Bangaljhi area of Chapra in 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,” police said. State minister Ujjal Biswas visited her house and spoke with the grieving family members. Chief minister Mamata Banerjee has urged chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar to pause the ongoing SIR in Bengal. On Thursday, she wrote to the CEC, stating that the continuous “unplanned and coercive drive” could endanger more lives and undermine the legitimacy of the exercise. The incident comes a day after another booth-level officer in Jalpaiguri district was found hanging, with her family also alleging that “unbearable SIR work pressure” led to her death.
