Akhilesh Yadav cautions officials and party men to be careful while talking to media

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Friday said whoever goes before the media, be it a representative of Government or a party, should be cautious.

This reaction came in context to the recent comment made by the UP Principal Secretary AK Gupta who had earlier said the children in the relief camps did not die due to cold.

"If people could die of cold then nobody would have survived in Siberia," Gupta had remarked. He also stated that only displaced people were living in the camps.

A. K. Gupta had pointed out that four children had died due to pneumonia and some others died because of dysentery, while one died due to premature birth. Gupta said that the report was submitted to the government on Wednesday.

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Thursday issued notice to the Uttar Pradesh chief secretary and district magistrates of Muzaffarnagar and Shamli on reports of children's death due to cold in relief camps

Over 40 children are reported to have died because of the cold in Muzaffarnagar and Shamli relief camps.

According to reports, the reason for the deaths was lack of blankets for inmates of these camps resulting in death of infants and children.

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Thursday issued notice to the Uttar Pradesh chief secretary and district magistrates of Muzaffarnagar and Shamli on reports of children's death due to cold in relief camps.

The commission also said that the contents of the press reports, if true, raise a serious issue of violation of human rights of infants and children.