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MP Govt, police in dock after malnutrition death
The State Government and the police in the State capital are facing criticism from all corners for registering a criminal case of culpable homicide under Section 304 (A) of the IPC against poor parents, after their infant daughter Swati (2) died of malnutrition.
The child died as the parents, Amarchandra and Lakmi Bai, who were suffering from acute financial crisis had no time for caring for their daughter, as they have go to work to earn wages for earning their daily bread. The accused are residents of Kalyanpur village under Sukhi Sevania police station area.
While talking to The Pioneer, in charge of Sukhi Sevania police station JL Sumere, who registered the criminal case in the incident, said that the parents had not given proper care to the girl child; therefore a case has been registered against them.
Discarding all this charges leveled on the parents, State Advisor to Supreme Court Commissioner in Right to Food case Sachin Jain said that there were 100 cases with him, where the parents declined to admit their malnourished kids in the Nutritional Rehabilitation centre (NRC) as they have to earn money and the whole family would die owing to hunger if the parents did not work.
“The State is responsible to the deaths of such kids,” he clearly asserted. The most surprising fact uttered by ASI Sumere was that parents were alcoholics and spent a big part of the earned money on alcohol.
“It was the duty of the anganwadi concerned to take attempts to make the accused quit alcohol as most of the tribals, whose children are malnourished are regular drinkers, but this does not means that a criminal case should be registered against them,” said Jain.
The State Government and the police in the State capital are facing criticism from all corners for registering a criminal case of culpable homicide under Section 304 (A) of the IPC against poor parents, after their infant daughter Swati (2) died of malnutrition.
The child died as the parents, Amarchandra and Lakmi Bai, who were suffering from acute financial crisis had no time for caring for their daughter, as they have go to work to earn wages for earning their daily bread. The accused are residents of Kalyanpur village under Sukhi Sevania police station area.
While talking to The Pioneer, in charge of Sukhi Sevania police station JL Sumere, who registered the criminal case in the incident, said that the parents had not given proper care to the girl child; therefore a case has been registered against them.
Discarding all this charges leveled on the parents, State Advisor to Supreme Court Commissioner in Right to Food case Sachin Jain said that there were 100 cases with him, where the parents declined to admit their malnourished kids in the Nutritional Rehabilitation centre (NRC) as they have to earn money and the whole family would die owing to hunger if the parents did not work.
“The State is responsible to the deaths of such kids,” he clearly asserted. The most surprising fact uttered by ASI Sumere was that parents were alcoholics and spent a big part of the earned money on alcohol.
“It was the duty of the anganwadi concerned to take attempts to make the accused quit alcohol as most of the tribals, whose children are malnourished are regular drinkers, but this does not means that a criminal case should be registered against them,” said Jain.
