{"id":11659,"date":"2026-04-13T22:52:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T22:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=11659"},"modified":"2026-04-13T22:52:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T22:52:41","slug":"130248724-cms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=11659","title":{"rendered":"West Bengal polls: 77-yr-old dies of &#8216;heart attack&#8217; as kin fight home voting officials | India News &#8211; The Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-130248729,imgsize-1410196,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/-.jpg\" alt=\"West Bengal polls: 77-yr-old dies of 'heart attack' as kin fight home voting officials\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>MALDA: The 77-year-old wife of an 85-year-old voter died of suspected heart attack during a commotion as their family quarrelled with election officials visiting the elderly citizens&#8217; houses to register their vote in a village in Bengal&#8217;s North Dinajpur on Monday.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"2\"\/>After the news of Tafijan Bibi&#8217;s death spread, angry locals, along with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/tmc\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">TMC<\/a> workers, briefly confined the poll officials in Viti Katihar village.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>As the octogenarian Kalu Sheikh is blind, his family demanded his disabled daughter be allowed to stay in the room during voting, but the EC team rejected the request, triggering an argument with villagers and TMC workers.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/>Tafijan suddenly fell ill and fatally collapsed. She was taken to Raiganj Medical College, where doctors declared her dead, suspecting a heart attack.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/>Their family alleged the officials forced Sheikh to vote.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/>While district election officer <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/vivek-kumar\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Vivek Kumar<\/a> said there had been a misunderstanding, TMC&#8217;s Krishna Kalyani alleged, &#8220;The inhuman EC has not only deprived one person of their vote but has also taken the life of another voter.&#8221;<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"18\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/west-bengal-polls-77-yr-old-dies-of-heart-attack-as-kin-fight-home-voting-officials\/articleshow\/130248724.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MALDA: The 77-year-old wife of an 85-year-old voter died of suspected heart attack during a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[724,723,719,720,721,28421,28420,28422,28423,28418,28419,4256,722,28417],"class_list":["post-11659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-breaking-news","tag-google-news","tag-india","tag-india-news","tag-india-news-today","tag-kalu-sheikh","tag-krishna-kalyani","tag-north-dinajpur","tag-raiganj-medical-college","tag-sheikh","tag-subhro-maitra","tag-tmc","tag-today-news","tag-vivek-kumar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}