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“Savitri’s family had applied for a ration card almost a year ago, which she never got. RANCHI: Jharkhand chief minister Raghubar Das on Monday asked Giridih district officials to submit a report on the death of an elderly woman, allegedly because of starvation, within 24 hours. Right to food (RTF) activists Ramdev Vishwabandhu and Vishwanath Singh on Monday visited her house to investigate the reasons of her death. So, the cause of her death is not due to hunger (sic).”On Monday, when officials from the land and revenue department visited the village, they found that Savitri’s family owns land measuring 25 decimals. “This seems to have happened four years after her old-age pension had been sanctioned..