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Breastfeeding inalienable right of lactating mother: HC on woman whose baby was stolen

Karnataka High Court observed that breastfeeding is an inalienable right of a lactating mother under the fundamental rights guaranteed by the Constitution. The right of the suckling infant to be breastfed should be assimilated with mother’s right, it added. The case pertains to a woman seeking custody of her child, who was stolen after birth and sold to a woman.

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