No State has reported starvation deaths, Centre tells SC
The Hindu
Bench asks States to provide data on malnutrition, starvation deaths and other related issues within two weeks
The Supreme Court’s questions on hunger deaths drew a near blank from the Union government on Tuesday.
The government’s response skirted from urging the court to ask the States for data, making sweeping comments about malnutrition in “developing countries” to reading statistics out of a 2015 health survey report and a newspaper article.
“Why are you looking at a 2015-2016 report? Are you looking through that prism to say there are no starvation deaths now? So you have to look at a newspaper report?” a three-judge Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) N.V. Ramana, Justices A.S. Bopanna and Hima Kohli asked the Centre, represented by Attorney General K.K. Venugopal.