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The Supreme Court on Friday overruled the Centre’s objections to taking up a public interest litigation on the plight of unorganised labourers who fled the cities, and issued notice on the plea that the government pay their wages as employers may not be able to do so during the lockdown people on the ground. Sitting in AC rooms and filing PILs doesn’t help,” Mehta said.
The court though shrugged off the objections, saying that it was “particularly concerned” about the “plight” of migrant workers. The government will have to respond to the petition by April 7, a bench comprising Justices L Nageswara Rao and Deepak Gupta said.
The petition, argued by lawyer Prashant Bhushan on behalf of Mander, termed the exodus of migrants from cities to the neighbourhoods as a humanitarian crisis of a huge magnitude, and termed the steps taken to deal with it as inadequate.
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