Overview

• Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice Sandeep Marne set a three-week deadline for Maharashtra’s government and petitioners to submit the joint report.
• Justices instructed the document to pinpoint villages still struggling with malnutrition and to catalogue measures taken under earlier court directives.
• The report must propose a permanent oversight body to ensure long-term action against child malnutrition in the state’s tribal regions.
• Chief Justice Aradhe questioned the lack of up-to-date mortality figures, stressing that the court does not know how many children have died.
• The bench emphasized the need for state-led, sustainable solutions as the judiciary cannot continue indefinite monitoring of relief efforts.