BLO injured in attack by villager in West Bengal's Nadia

A booth-level officer was injured in West Bengal after an alleged assault during a voter data verification exercise.

“A booth-level officer (BLO) was seriously injured after being allegedly assaulted by a man during the ongoing SIR exercise in West Bengal's Nadia district,” a police officer said.

BLO Ali Saheb was attacked when he went to a village in Kaliganj area on Sunday (February 15, 2026) to verify cases of "logical discrepancies" in voter data under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise.

Mr. Saheb was attacked when he informed a resident, Alifa Bibi, who was accompanied by her husband, Ayatullah Sheikh, that they would need to attend a special hearing for the correction of documents submitted by their family.

"According to the police complaint received, the BLO was allegedly attacked after he conveyed to Alifa Bibi that a hearing would be required to address the inconsistency in the age difference between her daughter and Sheikh," the officer said.

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“When the BLO pleaded helplessness in personally resolving the issue and said the only way out would be EC's intervention to call a special hearing session for the family, all of a sudden, Sheikh allegedly hit the BLO with a stick, which led to heavy bleeding from his head,” the police officer said.