India, Nov. 17 -- There is no evidence to link the death of a school employee, working as a Booth Level Officer (BLO), to the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of Kerala's electoral roll, a senior Kannur district official said on Monday, amid a statewide protest by BLOs in the state.

The school employee, posted as a last-grade attendant at an upper primary school, was found dead at home on Sunday morning. His family had linked his suicide to stress over the distribution of enumeration forms for a booth of the Payyannur assembly seat. He had been designated as a BLO in July and had trained for the SIR exercise, which started on November 4.

His father told reporters on Sunday that his son was not familiar with the neighbourhood and...