On Saturday, the woman, along with her minor daughter, consumed poison as she allegedly feared that she would be deported if her name did not appear in the voter list after the Bengal SIR.
Published: November 9, 2025 8:51 PM IST
Bengal SIR: In yet another alleged suicide case related to the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal, a 27-year-old woman and her minor daughter allegedly attempted suicide in Hooghly district, as the woman did not receive a SIR enumeration form, and feared she would be declared an illegal and deported from the country.
‘She feared deportation due to Bengal SIR’
According to her family, the woman and her daughter had been living at her parental home in Dhaniakhali in Hooghly district for the past six years following a marital dispute, and had lately been mentally stressed, after she did not receive the SIR form while other family members did.
On Saturday, the woman, along with her minor daughter, consumed poison as she allegedly feared that she would be deported if her name did not appear in the voter list after the Bengal SIR.
“She was frightened because she had no documents and feared being deported. Out of panic, she consumed poison along with her daughter,” the woman’s father told the media in Kolkata where the victims are receiving medical attention after the alleged suicide bid.
Police said the mother-daughter duo are currently in critical condition at SSKM Hospital’s ICU, adding that an investigation into the alleged incident is underway.
Eight SIR-linked suicides in Bengal, claims TMC
Notably, Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) claimed has claimed that at least eight people in the state have committed suicide over over fears of being excluded from the voter list since the SIR exercise commenced in West Bengal.
Dhaniakhali TMC MLA Asima Patra accused the BJP of creating fear among people through misleading statements about NRC and detention camps. “When BJP leaders talk about sending people to detention camps, it spreads panic across Bengal. A similar case occurred in Dankuni a few days ago,” Patra said, adding, “BJP is playing with people’s lives.
In a post on X, the TMC shared pictures of party leaders visiting the families of two persons who allegedly died by suicide recently in Sainthia (Birbhum) and Bhangar (South 24 Parganas) over similar fears.
“As admitted by the Home Minister himself, the @BJP4India is on a mission to ‘detect, delete and deport.’ Bengalis are legitimate citizens of this country who have lived here for generations with pride and dignity. Today these very sons and daughters of the soil are being subjected to a humiliating test of citizenship in their own homeland. The climate of fear and anxiety, deliberately engineered by the BJP, is now claiming innocent lives,” the TMC alleged.
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