India has issued a rebuttal to Switzerland at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), describing comments made by the Swiss delegation on the treatment of minorities in India as “surprising, shallow, and ill-informed.”

Family members of one of the two newborn girls who died after allegedly being bitten by rats in the ICU of state-run MY Hospital (MYH) here on Wednesday accused its administration of negligence and misleading them on the exact cause of her death.

Justice Shekhar Yadav of the Allahabad High Court said that due to the advent of mobile phones, communication between family members has come to an end, leading to loneliness and forcing people to commit suicide.