The Juvenile Justice Board will prescribe a penalty and jail term for the headmaster arrested on charges of failing to provide juvenile care that caused the death of a student in snakebite in Katwa.
On the World Snakebite Awareness Day, yesterday, East Burdwan recorded three deaths due to snake bites.
Three minor girls, all siblings, died of snakebite while their father was hospitalised in critical condition in Odisha's Boudh district, police said on Monday.
A petition filed earlier by human rights lawyer Radhakanta Tripathy had sought NHRC’s intervention on the lack of measures on part of the government to combat the rising cases of snakebite deaths.
Authors of the nationally representative mortality study calls for making snakebite a notifiable disease in India to check gross under-reporting of deaths.
Deceased girl's father, Rajesh, too told the media that he was threatened by the school authority.
In his letter, Gandhi said that the school's crumbling infrastructure needed urgent attention from the state government.
Out of them, 80 per cent death cases reported were due to Russels Viper (chandrabora) bites, which took place in the past two years.
Twenty-eight year-old Namita Kshetrapal, another housewife from Debipur in Memari Police Station area also was bitten by a venomous snake on her right leg at around 11.00 p.m.
Out of estimated one-lakh deaths due to snakebite across the globe annually, nearly half occur in India. Still, the snakebite…
