Overview
- The man was found hanging at his home in Borabanda early Sunday, June 28, and Borabanda police have registered a case and launched an investigation.
- Family members identify him as Sheikh Mujbil Rehman (reported also as Shaik Mujeeb) and say he spent weeks and about Rs 1–1.5 lakh trying to correct mismatched identity documents after finding his name absent from the 2002 voter list.
- Police confirm relatives reported he had become depressed but say they have not established any direct causal link between the Special Intensive Revision enumeration and his death.
- Relatives say two of his three children have intellectual disabilities and that he feared deletion from the roll would jeopardise disability pensions and other welfare tied to household identification.
- The incident has drawn attention to the door-to-door SIR exercise, which began on June 25 and has had Booth Level Officers distribute more than 1.43 crore forms with roughly 42.33% voter coverage, raising questions about how large-scale roll mapping interacts with document errors and vulnerable households.