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A Booth Level Officer (BLO) deployed for Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls successful Meerut allegedly attempted to extremity his beingness owed to alleged harassment and excessive workload, officials and household members said connected Wednesday (December 3, 2025).
The officer, identified arsenic Mohit Chaudhary (35), a nonmigratory of Murlipura colony nether Mundali constabulary presumption limits and a elder adjunct successful the Irrigation Department, was besides handling BLO-ICD duties successful the Pallavpuram area.
He was rushed to a backstage infirmary connected Garh Road precocious connected Tuesday (December 2) nighttime and aboriginal referred to Lokpriya Hospital successful superior condition.
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Family members claimed Mr. Chaudhary had been nether terrible accent for respective days owed to dual responsibilities and a dense workload. They alleged that a tehsil-level supervisor, Ashish Sharma, had been repeatedly pressuring him implicit the advancement of forms and threatening suspension and registration of an FIR.
According to the family, Mr. Chaudhary tried to extremity his beingness aft reaching location Tuesday (December 2) night.
His wife, Jyoti, said helium would permission location aboriginal successful the greeting and instrumentality precocious astatine night, adding that helium had not been eating decently and had been mentally distressed for galore days.
Soon aft the incident, national representatives and chap BLOs reached the infirmary and staged a protest, accusing the supervisor of harassment.
They alleged that BLOs were bearing the maximum workload nether the ongoing SIR workout but were inactive being subjected to unit and threats by officials.
The Union warned of agitation if enactment was not taken against those responsible.
Additional City Magistrate Deepak Kathuria, Naib Tehsildar Aadesh Singh and Police unit reached the infirmary and urged the protesting employees to support peace. The officials besides met the household and assured a thorough enquiry into the incident.
District Election Officer and District Magistrate (DM) V.K. Singh told PTI in the greeting that Mr. Chaudhary's information was present unchangeable and said the crushed for the termination effort would beryllium wide aft an inquiry.
"The crushed down the enactment volition beryllium wide aft the inquiry. Since the SIR thrust is underway, radical thin to nexus everything to it, but home oregon different issues could besides beryllium involved," helium said.
The DM besides suggested that workload unit did not look evident, arsenic preliminary findings indicated Mr. Chaudhary had already completed implicit 70% of his assigned work.
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