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A antheral was arrested for allegedly threatening a booth-level serviceman (BLO) implicit a quality successful filling up the enumeration signifier of a 97-year-old elector successful West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district, as portion of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls successful the State, constabulary said connected Sunday (November 23, 2025).
The accused, identified arsenic Jamirul Islam Molla, considered an progressive TMC idiosyncratic astatine Nazat successful Basirhat, had allegedly threatened the BLO with dire consequences aft the nonagenarian's sanction was recovered missing successful the voters' database of 2002, the twelvemonth erstwhile the past SIR was conducted successful the State, a elder serviceman said.
BLO Deepak Mahato had archetypal submitted a written ailment to the Block Development Officer and aboriginal lodged a ailment astatine Nazat Police Station, alleging that Molla threatened him implicit the phone, helium said.
"Molla was arrested connected Saturday night, and a lawsuit has been registered for threatening a authorities authoritative and obstructing him from performing his duties. The accused has been produced earlier a Basirhat court," the serviceman said.
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Locals claimed that the accused is adjacent to the TMC panchayat pradhan of the country and was besides moving arsenic a booth-level cause appointed by the ruling party.
A purported audio clip of the telephonic speech betwixt Molla and the BLO went viral connected societal media.
Mr. Mahato besides claimed that Mr. Molla repeatedly pressured him to someway adhd the sanction of the 97-year-old elector to the electoral roll, and threatened him with vandalising his location and mounting it connected fire.
The BLO claimed that helium felt intimidated and feared, the serviceman said.
