Indore water contamination: Infant born after 10-year wait dies; family rejects government compensation

Key Highlights

• A simple act of diluting packaged milk with water cost the baby his life and plunged the Sahu family into unbearable grief.
• The family claims it has rejected the government's compensation for the death of the child, who was born after 10 years of prayers and vows.
• The government has announced an ex gratia of ₹2 lakh each to the families of the deceased persons.
• Residents have claimed that 15 people died due to the vomiting-diarrhoea outbreak caused by contaminated drinking water in Bhagirathpura over the last year, with Avyan being the youngest among them.
• The health department, however, has not confirmed this claim and said only four deaths occurred in the outbreak.