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Kolkata, Oct 30 (IANS) The suicide note of 57-year-old Pradeep Kar, a resident of Panihati in North 24 Parganas district, who allegedly committed suicide due to fear of the possible National Register of Citizens (NRC) process in West Bengal, has been sent for forensic examination. Police gave this information on Thursday.
Officials from the Barrackpore Police Commissionerate, under whose jurisdiction the incident occurred, said steps were taken to confirm whether the note was indeed written by the deceased.
“The decision to send the suicide note for forensic analysis was taken to verify its authenticity,” a commissionerate official said.
Deputy Commissioner (South) Anupam Singh told reporters that the investigation is ongoing. “A thorough investigation is being conducted to ascertain the actual reason behind the suicide. It is too early to comment further,” he said.
The case has attracted significant attention amid the political tussle over the issue of NRC and Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of state voter lists.
Mystery surrounds the suicide note itself, which reportedly cites NRC as the reason behind the extreme tax step.
The West Bengal BJP has rejected this claim, arguing that since Kar’s name appeared in the voter list of 2002 – the year of the last SIR conducted by the Election Commission of India (ECI) – there was no reason to fear his exclusion.
Adding to the confusion, Kar’s brother-in-law Uttam Hazra told the media that the deceased had lost four fingers on his right hand in an accident years ago, raising doubts over whether he would have written the note himself, as he was not left-handed.
Meanwhile, Moushumi Kar, sister-in-law of the deceased, has lodged a complaint at the Khardaha police station, alleging that Pradeep Kar was driven to suicide after deliberately creating fear about the NRC. He has demanded a thorough investigation into those who may have influenced or misled him.
The incident has added to rising political tensions in the state, where concerns over revision of voter lists and alleged voter deletion have sparked widespread debate and protests.
–IANS
Source/PGH