Scrambling home: Migrant workers boarding a truck to Palwal, Haryana, on the Kondli-Manesar-Palwal Expressway. Ashok Kumar
CJI S.A. Bobde makes it clear that the court does not want to create a state of confusion by passing any direction at this point of time while the government is on the job
The Supreme Court on Monday sought a report from the government on steps taken about the largescale inter-State movement of migrant workers during the 21-day national lockdown on account of the COVID-19 outbreak.
A Bench of Chief Justice S.A. Bobde and L. Nageswara Rao was hearing via videoconferencing petitions filed separately by advocates Alakh Alok Srivastava and Rashmi Bansal seeking directions to the government to immediately redress the “heart-wrenching and inhuman plight of thousands of migrant workers” who are walking back to their native villages from the cities without basic essentials in the wake of the lockdown and provide them with medical aid.
‘Stop migration’
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta agreed to fi