Overview
- Police and media reports count at least nine deaths, including six alleged suicides, since the Election Commission began the Special Intensive Revision of the rolls last month.
- The latest case involves 70-year-old Shyamal Kumar Saha in Nadia, whose family says he stopped eating after learning his name was missing from the 2002 list despite holding multiple IDs, according to police.
- In Malda, 26-year-old Rajesh Mohammad is in critical care after allegedly consuming poison over a voter-list error that misprinted his and his father’s names, with a state minister promising the correction.
- A 27-year-old woman who reportedly did not receive an SIR form attempted suicide with her minor daughter, and both are in intensive care, police said.
- Officials and parties trade claims as BLOs report incomplete mapping and name errors across districts, while Malda police say they busted a forged-document racket and arrested two suspects.