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20/03/2021
Activists welcome India Supreme Court's move to quiz gov't on voided ration cards linked to starvation deaths
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More than three years since India was rocked by the story of a child from Jharkhand state, who had shrunk to skin and bones and was said to have pleaded for rice before she died famished, the country's Supreme Court (SC) has finally heard the plea to compel the central government to explain its side on starvation deaths allegedly caused by the cancellation of cards that authorized poor people to buy staples at subsidized prices.