NHRC notice to UP govt over reported deaths due to malnutrition in Basti district

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken suo motu cognizance of a media report that a family residing at Ojhaganj village of Uttar Pradesh's Basti district has lost four of its members during the last six years due to malnutrition.Issuing the notice, the Commission has further observed, "The media report indicates that there could be more such hapless families, shattered due to the lack of infrastructure and negligence by the authorities concerned".A press release from the NHRC said, "Reportedly, not being able to bear the extreme physical and mental suffering, the head of the family has requested the authorities to allow him end his life as he is not being given work by anyone for the last three months and has no source of income to procure bread and butter for him and his only daughter, who is also struggling to survive.""The Commission has observed that the contents of the news report, if true, raise a serious issue of human rights violation due to the lack of ...