The National Human Rights Commission has drawn the attention of the government to the worsening health condition of Ganga Maya Adhikari, who has been on a hunger strike for over two weeks, demanding justice for the murder of her son Krishna Prasad Adhikari 16 years ago.

Issuing a statement after meeting Adhikari on Monday, the commission said her health condition is deteriorating fast.

“The commission would like to draw the attention of the government to her poor health,” reads the statement. “The commission also urges the government to address her demand for right to justice.”

Adhikari, who has been holding protests regularly since January 2013, started yet another fast-unto-death on December 21 at the National Trauma Centre.

Adhikari, who is in her mid-6os, has already staged several rounds of hunger strike seeking justice for the murder of her son.

Her son Krishna Prasad was murdered during the Maoist insurgency on June 6, 2004.

Adhikari and her husband, Nanda Prasad, had first begun their hunger strike in front of the prime minister’s official residence in Baluwatar in January 2013.

They started their second hunger strike a few months later after the court released the accused murderer of their son.

Nanda Prasad died after 329 days of the hunger strike on September 22, 2014. His body is in a mortuary at Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, as the family has refused to receive it and perform the last rites.

The Chitwan District Court, in September 2018, acquitted all 12 accused in Krishna Prasad’s murder citing lack of evidence.