AGARTALA, Nov 12 (TIWN): A Supreme Court Lawyer has issued notice to Tripura Govt officials for stopping rations to Brus.

This notice came after 6 people including a child died in starvation at the Bru camp of Brus in Kanchanpur after Govt stopped ration supplies at there.

According to Indian Express report the notice was served to the Director General of Police Akhil Kumar Shukla, North Tripura District Magistrate Raval Hamendra Kumar and Kanchanpur Sub Divisional Magistrate Abhedananda Baidya.

“We have learned that your administration has stopped the ration, cash dole, and such other critical relief services at the seven Bru IDP relief camps in Tripura, creating a dire circumstance for the refugees, resulting, so far, in the death due to starvations of six persons, among others…..in addition, it is learned that you are threatening to close the relief camps on 30.11.2019 and then there are reports of sporadic violence by the police authorities against the IDPs”, the notice stated.

Ali Zia Kabir Choudhary, is representing Mizoram Bru Displaced Peoples Forum (MBDPF) in the Supreme Court in a petition continuing since 2017, added the report in Indian Express.