A Coerced Sterilisation and a Senseless Death in Rajasthan
Bhavna Suthar of Rajasthan s Bansi village died after a sterilisation procedure at a camp last year that flouted norms and gave her no time to consider options. Her husband Dinesh is still seeking justice.
Illustration: Labani Jangi/People s Archive of Rural India
 and the Population Foundation of India in the run-up to World Population Day, July 11.
âThere was nothing wrong. Nothing unusual. Everything was fine, life was going on quite ordinarily,â says 33-year-old Dinesh Chandra Suthar, sitting amid his family’s files and reports, and recalling how everyday the circumstances were when the unthinkable happened.