Responding to mid-day’s report about an elderly woman who was allegedly abandoned by her grandson in a garbage dump at Aarey Milk Colony, the National Cancer Institute (NCI), Nagpur, has stepped forward to provide free cancer treatment and medical care to the ailing woman. The Maharashtra Human Rights Commission (MHRC), meanwhile, has taken suo motu cognisance of the incident and registered a case.

This newspaper’s June 23 report on the alleged abandonment of the woman, who has a cancerous facial ulcer, sparked widespread outrage, prompting swift responses from civil society and numerous institutions.

(From left) The abandoned woman found near a garbage dump in Aarey; the roadside garbage dump where the woman was discovered. Pics/By Special Arrangement