Overview
- Rahul Gandhi met patients at Indore’s Bombay Hospital and visited Bhagirathpura to offer condolences and hear from bereaved families of the water-linked vomiting and diarrhoea outbreak.
- Residents claim 24 deaths, the state’s status report to the High Court lists seven, and a Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College audit says 15 fatalities could be linked to the outbreak.
- The administration says it has paid Rs 2 lakh to 21 families on humanitarian grounds, suspended an IAS officer, and is providing treatment to those affected.
- Congress leaders are pressing for a judicial inquiry and public release of official reports, while the National Green Tribunal has taken suo motu cognisance of sewage contamination in drinking water.
- Chief Minister Mohan Yadav accused Congress of politicising the tragedy and invoked the Bhopal gas case, as Gandhi blamed government negligence and called for accountability and adequate compensation.