Kolkata, Nov 23: A man was arrested for allegedly threatening a booth-level officer (BLO) over a dispute in filling up the enumeration form of a 97-year-old voter in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district, as part of the ongoing SIR of electoral rolls in the state, police said on Sunday.
The accused, identified as Jamirul Islam Molla, considered an active TMC worker at Nazat in Basirhat, had allegedly threatened the BLO with dire consequences after the nonagenarian’s name was found missing in the voters’ list of 2002, the year when the last SIR was conducted in the state, a senior officer said.
BLO Deepak Mahato had first submitted a written complaint to the Block Development Officer and later lodged a complaint at Nazat Police Station, alleging that Molla threatened him over the phone. Molla was arrested, the officer added. (PTI)
