PURULIA/TAMLUK: Households of two aged voters who died on Monday, after receiving listening to notices, have lodged police complaints in opposition to CEC Gyanesh Kumar and Bengal chief electoral officer Manoj Agarwal, holding them liable for the deaths. Deceased Purulia voter Durjan Majhi’s son Kanai alleged his father’s title was there on the bodily 2002 Bengal SIR rolls however was lacking from the 2002 SIR checklist uploaded on the EC web site, leading to a listening to discover being despatched. The 82-year-old jumped earlier than a transferring practice simply hours earlier than his scheduled SIR listening to. EC had in a notification on Dec 27 mentioned 1.3 lakh such voters, whose names seem on the 2002 bodily SIR roll however should not mirrored on EC’s on-line database on account of a technical glitch, won’t have to seem for a listening to. Son of Jamat Ali Sekh, a 64-year-old Howrah resident who died on Monday shortly after receiving a listening to discover, alleged that the CEC and CEO misused their powers to place his father, a legitimate voter, beneath psychological duress, inflicting his dying. Reacting to this, an EC official mentioned, “No FIR might be lodged in opposition to the CEC. The regulation is restricted on this. A CEO too can’t be blamed for any legal offence whereas discharging his duties. Any FIR drawn by police may have authorized penalties.” In the meantime, on Tuesday, 75-year-old Bimal Shee, who was distraught after being despatched a listening to discover, was discovered hanging in his home in East Midnapore.
