“This is horrific. The government should be worried and concerned,” the bench said, while hearing a set of public interest litigations highlighting the continued deaths of children, pregnant women, and lactating mothers from malnutrition in the region

The Bombay High Court (HC) on Wednesday strongly criticised the Maharashtra Government for its “extremely casual” handling of the malnutrition crisis in the state’s tribal-dominated Melghat region, calling the deaths of infants there “horrific”.

A division bench of Justices Revati Mohite Dere and Sandesh Patil noted that between June till date, 65 infants aged between zero and six months have died due to malnutrition in Melghat, located in Amravati district. Read More

“This is horrific. The government should be worried and concerned,” t

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