The case was registered based on a general diary filed by the deceased tribal man’s son, Kanai Majhi, the police said on Wednesday. According to Purulia district police sources, the Para police station filed a case against the Election Commission on Tuesday for “abetment of suicide and criminal conspiracy”.The FIR mentioned “unknown officials and officials of the Election Commission of India,” the police said. On December 29, Durjan Majhi, a resident of Chautala village in Anara Gram Panchayat of Para block, told his family he was going out to reserve a Toto (battery-powered auto-rickshaw).
He then committed “suicide” on the railway tracks near his house. He had a SIR hearing scheduled at the Para block office that same day. As the elderly man committed “suicide” just hours before the SIR hearing, his son, Kanai Majhi, a daily wage labourer, filed a complaint against the Election Commission at the Para police station that same night.
However, only a general diary was registered based on that complaint.