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

Lucknow, Feb 19 (UNI) The National Human Rights Commission,( NHRC) has issued a notice to Uttar Pradesh government over a media report that a family residing at Ojhaganj village of the Basti district has lost four of its members during the last six years due to malnutrition.
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 lone 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 nutritional diet, adequate medical care and proper means of livelihood.
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