Senior Citizen dies due to anxiety over SIR in West Bengal

A 70-year-old man killed in Nadia district on Monday, with his family alleging that the death was due to anxiety linked to the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal, police said.

The deceased, identified as Shyamal Kumar Saha, was a resident of Krishnachakpur Mandalpara under Taherpur Police Station, and he had stopped taking



food due to SIR anxiety, they said.

Family members claimed that the deceased had stopped eating food after learning his name was missing from the 2002 voters list. 

They also claimed that he had all the valid documents. We have come across the death, but there is no official communication from the family in connection with it,” they said.