Last Updated:November 18, 2025, 14:17 IST A man, declared dead in Bagda (West Bengal) nearly 30 years ago, has now returned home after the SIR electoral revision, sparking controversy over his identity and voter records Local booth committee member Samir Guha said that after 2002, Jagbandhu’s name disappeared from the SIR rolls, with only his father’s name remaining. (AI-generated Image) In a dramatic turn of events in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district, the Election Commission’s intensive revision of electoral rolls has reunited a family that had long accepted the loss of a loved one. The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, which attracted controversy across the state, inadvertently brought unexpected joy to a household in Bagda when a man believed dead for nearly three decades walked through his house door. Jagbandhu Mandal, now 55, had vanished on a cold February morning in 1997, leaving behind his wife, Supriya, and their two young children. After exhaustive searches, and even an astrologer’s grim confirmation of his death, the family performed his last rites and moved on with …