It is a matter of relief that the Supreme Court has at last taken cognisance of the plight of millions of inter-State workers looking for transportation house and relief from the relentless anguish unleashed on them by the lockdown. With a kind of self-effacement and self-abnegation not in keeping with its institutional history, the Court had then accepted the government’s sweeping claim that there were no migrants on the roads any more, and that the initial exodus of workers from cities to their home States had been set off by “fake news” to the result that the lockdown would last for months. In a regrettably limited intervention, the Court merely encouraged the cops to treat
Belated, but welcome: On Supreme Court carry on migrant employees
