A young, 27-year-old mother allegedly attempted suicide along with her minor daughter in West Bengal fearing deportation after she did not receive a special intensive review (SIR) enumeration form, PTI reported on November 9, citing her family.
The alleged incident took place on November 8 at the woman’s house in Dhaniakhali. Police told the news agency that the investigation is ongoing and both are in critical condition in the ICU of SSKM Hospital.
The family claims distress due to the SIR form
According to the woman’s father, she was deeply upset after she did not receive the SIR form while other family members did. “She was scared because she had no documents and was afraid of being deported. Out of panic, she consumed poison along with her daughter,” he said after visiting her daughter in Kolkata.
She has been living at her parental home in Dhaniakhali in the district for the past six years following a marital dispute. They said she had been under visible mental stress in recent days.
TMC accuses BJP of ‘creating fear among people’
Dhaniakhali Trinamool Congress MLA Asima Patra accused 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 incident happened a few days ago in Dankuni. BJP is playing with people’s lives,” Patra said.
In a post on X, Trinamool Congress also shared pictures of party leaders visiting the families of two persons who reportedly died of suicide recently in Sainthia (Birbhum) and Bhangar (South 24 Parganas) over similar concerns.
“As the Home Minister himself has admitted, @BJP4India is on a mission to ‘detect, erase and deport’. Bengalis are rightful citizens of this country who have lived here for generations with pride and dignity. It is these sons and daughters of the soil who are being subjected to a humiliating test of citizenship in their homeland today. The climate of fear and anxiety deliberately created by the BJP will now claim innocent lives,” the shepherd said.
