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The ongoing peculiar intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls crossed respective States has imposed an “inhuman workload and coercive pressure” connected booth-level officers (BLOs) and different canvass officials, resulting successful aggregate cardiac arrests, collapses and deaths, according to a ailment filed with the National Human Rights Commission connected Tuesday (November 25, 2025).
The complaint, submitted by Mumbai-based advocator Hitendra D. Gandhi, besides warns of large-scale wrongful deletion of voters’ names, calling the concern a “moment of heavy law danger.”
According to the complaint, aggregate verified quality reports from Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Kerala, and different States amusement a disturbing pattern. It said that BLOs, mostly school teachers and clerks, are collapsing oregon taking their ain lives nether State-imposed pressures, portion lakhs of citizens find their names missing from electoral rolls.
Multiple deaths
The papers refers to cases specified arsenic Arvind Vadher in Gujarat, Ramakant Pandey successful Madhya Pradesh, Rinku Tarafdar successful West Bengal, and Aneesh George successful Kerala, among others. Media analyses cited successful the ailment enactment that astatine slightest 15 BLOs person died successful six States within 19 days, immoderate by termination and others owed to bosom attacks oregon accidents during SIR duty.
The ailment urges the NHRC to dainty the substance arsenic acceptable for suo motu cognizance nether Section 12 of the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993. It seeks urgent reports from the Election Commission of India and State authorities connected deaths, wellness incidents, duty orders and elector deletions, and recommends interim measures specified arsenic humane caps connected moving hours, exemption for high-risk staff, withdrawal of coercive suspension threats, aesculapian and intelligence support, and recalibration of timelines. It besides calls for compensation for affected families and the framing of National Guidelines connected Human Rights–Compliant Conduct of SIR, on with an autarkic audit of each deletions and alterations successful electoral rolls during the existent revision.
“The plan and enforcement of SIR arsenic presently implemented evidence systemic negligence successful the prevention of quality rights violations,” the complaint stated, informing that coercive practices and wide disenfranchisement magnitude to violations of the close to life, dignity and antiauthoritarian participation.
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