A 45-year-old reportedly woman, Meena Musahar, died of starvation in Jharkhand on Monday. It is alleged she was going without food for four days before she died.
After falling ill on Monday morning, she was carried to the nearest hospital by her son where she was declared ‘brought dead’.
The death of Meena Musahar, a resident of Itkhori village of Prem nagar area, is the second such incident in the past three days.
In a similar incident, 58-year-old Savitri Devi allegedly starved to death on Sunday at Giridih in Jharkhand. She had nothing to eat for three days, reportedly because she didn’t have a ration card.
"Due to the negligence of authorities, her ration card could not be made, which is why she was unable to get food," a district official Sheetal Prasad told news agency ANI.
A day after the alleged starvation death of a 58-year-old woman in Jharkhands Giridih district, an official team that visited her home found no food in the house. A probe has been ordered into why Savitri Devi, a resident of Mangargaddi village in Dumri block, did not have a ration card and whether she had formally applied for one, reported The Indian Express.
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