Screen capture of a video of a baby trying to wake up his deceased mother at Muzaffarpur station. (File)
Patna:
The video of a baby trying to wake up his mother, lying dead in a Bihar station, horrified the nation and once again underscored the appalling condition of the migrants who returned home after being blocked by the blockade coronavirus. On Thursday, the Patna High Court resumed the case, calling it “shocking and unfortunate”.
The woman had taken a special train for migrants from Ahmedabad to Gujarat in Bihar. Her family says she died of extreme heat and lack of food and water on the train just before arriving in Muzaffarpur, where her body was deposited.
In a frightening video, the woman’s son was seen pulling and playing with a shroud covering his body, as if waking his mother.
The Patna High Court has raised a series of questions to which the government has declared that the 27-year-old woman who traveled with her sister and brother-in-law was “mentally unstable” and died of “natural death” on the train trip on Monday.
“The following issues deserve immediate attention for our consideration,” said the High Court, raising several questions. “Has an autopsy been done? Is the woman really starving? What measures are being taken by law enforcement agencies? Have the last rights of the deceased been respected in accordance with custom , tradition and government instructions? now take care of children / brother (s), who unfortunately lost their mother in these times of distress? “- asked the judges.
Representing the government of Bihar, Additional General Counsel SD Yadav said: “The woman was mentally unstable and died of a natural death during her journey from Surat, a fact reported by her companions – her sister and her beautiful -Brother. “
Mr. Yadav also told the court that no autopsy had been performed, and that no FIR had been registered; The family was allowed to take the body after registering statements with the railway authorities at Muzaffarpur station.
Bihar government’s lawyer said the woman, who was from Katihar, was living with her sister and brother-in-law after being abandoned by her husband and that her child was “in safe custody under the tutelage of the sister” .
Yadav added that he would “personally pursue” the matter with the authorities, who would contact the family again and ask if they needed help.
The Patna High Court said it would hear the case again on June 3 and requested that the facts be presented “on the personal affidavit of the chief secretaries concerned” before that.
On Monday, a five-year-old boy also died at Muzaffarpur station. The child died on his mother’s lap while his father was desperately looking for milk to feed him after getting off a train they had taken from Delhi.
