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A 59-year-old superior schoolhouse main connected Booth Level Officer (BLO) work for the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls successful Aligarh territory died of a bosom attack, her household and acquisition section officials said connected Friday (December 5, 2025).
The deceased, Sadhna Verma, who was nearing retirement, died astatine her location connected Thursday.
She had been deployed for the SIR workout since it began connected November 4. Her household said she had completed each her BLO duties successful Haivatpur Fagoi colony successful Koli tehsil wrong the stipulated clip "without immoderate issue".
Her son, Chetan, alleged that Verma had been nether "intense unit for a agelong period" though not due to the fact that of her BLO responsibilities.
"Her problems were not related to her enactment arsenic a BLO, but owed to the harassment she faced from her vice-principal and immoderate officials of the State Education Department who troubled her connected each imaginable pretext," helium claimed.
He further claimed his parent had not received her wage for 5 months contempt repeatedly pursuing up with officials, which had caused her terrible stress.
Basic Shiksha Adhikari (BSA) Rakesh Kumar said a three-member probe sheet has been acceptable up to analyse the matter.
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As an archetypal step, the vice-principal, Pooja Choudhry, against whom allegations of indiscipline and intelligence harassment person been levelled, has been suspended pending the inquiry, helium added.
Uttar Pradesh has witnessed aggregate cases of suicides and deaths of BLOs and different officials progressive successful the SIR amid claims of overwork, accent and harassment during the electoral workout undertaken to update voters' lists.
In 2 caller specified incidents, an adjunct teacher connected BLO work successful Hathras territory died connected December 2 aft helium collapsed astatine his residence. His household alleged helium had been nether terrible work-related stress.
On November 30, a 46-year-old BLO hanged himself astatine his location successful Moradabad due to the fact that of enactment pressure. He was assigned BLO duties connected October 7. A enactment near down by the deceased was recovered successful which helium said determination was “not capable clip to implicit the enactment assigned to him”.
