Killer Mid-Day Meal: Principal Gets 10 Years for Death of 23 Kids

Meena Devi is charged in the case of the unfortunate death of 23 children in Bihar.

• The prime accused in the deadly Bihar Mid-Day Meal case, Meena Devi, has been sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment by a trial court in Bihar.
  
  
• On 24 August, the then Principal Meena Devi, was pronounced guilty in the case. Her husband Arjun Rai, another accused, was let off for lack of evidence against him by a trial court.
  
  
• Meena Devi is charged in the case of the death of 23 children after they consumed the mid-day meal cooked in contaminated oil at Dharmasati Gandaman Primary School in Saran district of Bihar on 16 July 2013.
  
  
• As per the the chargesheet filed in the case, pesticides were kept in the same room as the food items for mid-day meals. The oil, and other items, were contaminated with pesticides. These items were then used to cook the meal consumed by the students.
  

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(With agency inputs.)