Mumbai : Terming the deaths of infants due to malnutrition in Maharashtra’s tribal-dominated Melghat as “horrific”, the Bombay High Court on Wednesday pulled up the state government for its “extremely casual” approach towards the issue.

From June 2025 to date, 65 infants between zero to six months of age lost their lives due to malnutrition in the Melghat region, a bench of Justices Revati Mohite Dere and Sandesh Patil noted.

“This is horrific. The government should be worried and concerned,” the high court said.

The HC was hearing a bunch of public interest litigations highlighting the high number of deaths of children, pregnant women and lactating mothers due to malnutrition in the Melghat region of Amravati district in eastern Maharashtra.

The court noted that it has been passing o

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