Overview
- The alleged poisoning occurred Saturday at the family home in Dhaniakhali in Hooghly district, according to reports.
- Both patients were taken to Kolkata’s SSKM Hospital and remain in intensive care, police said.
- The woman’s father said she panicked after not receiving a Special Intensive Revision enumeration form while relatives did and feared deportation.
- Relatives said she had been living with her parents for six years after a marital dispute and had recently shown visible mental stress.
- TMC MLA Asima Patra blamed BJP statements about detention camps and the NRC for creating panic, and the BJP had not responded in the reports.