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“A booth-level serviceman (BLO) was earnestly injured aft being allegedly assaulted by a antheral during the ongoing SIR exercise successful West Bengal's Nadia district,” a constabulary serviceman said.
BLO Ali Saheb was attacked erstwhile helium went to a colony successful Kaliganj country connected Sunday (February 15, 2026) to verify cases of "logical discrepancies" successful elector information nether the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise.
Mr. Saheb was attacked erstwhile helium informed a resident, Alifa Bibi, who was accompanied by her husband, Ayatullah Sheikh, that they would request to be a peculiar proceeding for the correction of documents submitted by their family.
"According to the constabulary ailment received, the BLO was allegedly attacked aft helium conveyed to Alifa Bibi that a proceeding would beryllium required to code the inconsistency successful the property quality betwixt her girl and Sheikh," the serviceman said.
“When the BLO pleaded helplessness successful personally resolving the contented and said the lone mode retired would beryllium EC's involution to telephone a peculiar proceeding league for the family, each of a sudden, Sheikh allegedly deed the BLO with a stick, which led to dense bleeding from his head,” the constabulary serviceman said.
The injured BLO was taken for aesculapian attention, and respective stitches had to beryllium performed connected his head.
However, Sheikh rejected the complaint of battle and filed a counter-complaint against the BLO, accusing him of misbehaviour. "The antheral has denied the allegations and claimed that the BLO was harassing his family. We person received a counter-complaint arsenic well," the serviceman said. Police were examining some versions of events and would proceed successful accordance with the law.
“The incidental has erstwhile again drawn attraction to the risks faced by field-level predetermination workers who question doorway to doorway arsenic portion of verification enactment during SIR, which volition travel to an extremity pursuing the work of the last electoral rotation connected February 28,” officials said.
