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KOLKATA: Another booth level officer (BLO), Mohammad Tahir (50), died of heart attack on Sunday. Family members alleged that mounting work pressure, coupled with the discovery of his own name on “under adjudication” list and persistent harassment from affected voters, led to a fatal heart attack.Tahir was a resident of the Anwar Bagan area under…
KOLKATA: The BLO, arrested on Friday for abducting a Baduria resident, on Saturday confessed to murdering him. Nasir Ali‘s dismembered body parts, stuffed in three plastic bags, were recovered from three water bodies.Police said an alleged extramarital relationship between the accused, Rizwan Hasan Mondal, and Ali’s wife could be the reason. Mondal, a primary school…
NEW DELHI: A West Bengal booth-level officer (BLO) and his accomplice have been arrested for allegedly murdering a man whose wife, according to police, was in a relationship with the BLO. Rizwan Hasan Mondal and his accomplice Sagar Gyne were apprehened after dismembered body parts of 30-year-old Nasir Ali were found in a canal in…
A government school headmaster in Murshidabad, Hamimul Islam, was found dead. He was appointed as a booth-level officer for electoral roll revision. BEHRAMPORE: The headmaster of a govt school in Murshidabad, who was appointed as a booth-level officer for the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, was found hanging in the school’s office…
PANAJI: Kargil War veteran and South Goa MP, Capt Viriato Fernandes, received a notice from Election Commission as part of SIR of electoral roll to appear with documents to prove his identity, prompting state chief electoral officer (CEO) to blame the BLO for dereliction of duty leading to auto generation of the notice.Goa CEO Sanjay…
Kolkata: Booth Level Officers (BLOs) under the banner of ‘BLO Adhikar Raksha Committee’ stage a protest over alleged excessive workload during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, outside Chief Electoral Officer’s (CEO) office, in Kolkata. (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: Central armed forces will be deployed at the office of the West Bengal…
Supreme Court (ANI photo) NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday took note of concerns over the workload of Booth Level Officers (BLOs) engaged in the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise. Amid reports alleging excessive pressure and even suicides, the top court directed state governments to deploy additional staff to reduce the working…
MEERUT/BAREILLY: Uttar Pradesh’s ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) drive took another grim turn this week, with a BLO dying of brain haemorrhage in Bareilly, another attempting suicide in Meerut, and a primary school teacher in Bulandshahr threatening to take her life over what she described as unbearable pressure linked to the SIR work. With these…
Image: Screengrab from video JAIPUR: A light-hearted moment has emerged from Chomu, Jaipur, amid reports of stress, pressure, and even deaths of BLOs engaged in Special Intensive Revision (SIR) work across India.A video from Chomu shows sub-divisional Officer (SDM) Dilip Singh Rathore dancing with BLOs and other officers. Watch: MPs Speak Out as SIR Row…
NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has set up a national coordination team to monitor the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and flag any “discrepancies,” along with issues faced by Booth Level Officers (BLOs) across the country.The seven-member committee will be headed by BJP national general secretary Tarun Chugh. Its other…
