Migrant Workers

The applicants has filed an intervention application in the suo motu matter relating to migrant workers.

The Gujarat High Court has taken suo motu cognizance of the incident of trampling of 15 migrant laborers sleeping on the roadside in Surat.

New Delhi (ILNS): The Supreme Court today told Republic TV Editor Arnab Goswami: “We are concerned about peace and harmony of the society. Nobody is immune from being questioned. We are not going to grant such immunity to anybody. We want an assurance of some sense and sensibility from you (Goswami).”

The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court granted anticipatory bail to Sandeep Singh, personal secretary to Congress general secretary Priyanka Vadra, considering that Singh was just a messenger for a letter from the party offering 1,000 buses to transport stranded workers.

Bombay High Court Chief Justice Dipankar Datta & Justice Anuja Prabhudessai observed that the West Bengal government, at one point of time, had even refused to allow labourers from other parts of the country to return to their homes in West Bengal.

The Supreme Court today directed the Centre and states to comply with its June 9 order to send the Migrants home within a period of 15 days.

The declaration of Covid-19 as a pandemic, followed by a nationwide lockdown to contain the virus, led to both public and private donations pouring in to help states and people, especially migrant workers

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday has directed the Centre and the Delhi Government to place on Record the procedure currently being followed for contractors or employers to register migrant workers as also what are the procedures being followed for ensuring compliance.

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday has directed the GNCTD to ensure that the two Hunger Relief Centres set up in Azadpur Mandi are provided enough cooked food so that the labourers stranded there can be provided packed lunch and dinner on a daily basis.

Under a poignant and evocative headline in this issue of India Legal, “Going Home to Die on the Road”, (read here) penned by the author himself, IIT science professor Dinesh Mohan addresses the gruesome phenomenon of India’s lockdown-smitten migrant workers being crushed to death on roads by vehicles