Overview
- Police in Purulia registered the FIR at Para Police Station based on the son’s complaint, invoking abetment of suicide and criminal conspiracy against Election Commission officials without naming anyone.
- The case concerns 82-year-old tribal resident Durjan Majhi, who died on December 29 hours before a scheduled Special Intensive Revision hearing, with his family attributing his death to anxiety over the process.
- ThePrint also reported a separate Purulia incident in which a 32-year-old tribal man allegedly died by suicide after receiving an SIR hearing notice, according to his family.
- MillenniumPost reported that relatives linked a 67-year-old man's death in Haroa to distress after SIR notices, and doctors said an elderly woman in Murshidabad broke her left arm after a fall while queuing for a hearing.
- The Trinamool Congress accused the Election Commission of creating fear through the SIR process, and ThePrint noted that the BJP and the Commission had not responded to the allegation.