India, Nov. 18 -- An elderly woman allegedly died by suicide in Kolkata's Kudghat area after setting herself on fire due to panic over the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal.

The victim, identified as Jamuna Mondal, 67, was a resident of Dhalai bridge of New Putiari Udayachal area in south Kolkata's Ward 114. She set herself on fire inside her house as she did not receive her enumeration form, news agency PTI reported quoting police officials.

Mondal's family claimed that her anxiety intensified soon after the SIR process commenced. When she did not receive her SIR enumeration form, it only contributed to her distress.

She was rushed to MR Bangur hospital in Tollygunge with severe burns, where she later succumbed t...