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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court said on Friday that it is impossible for the courts to monitor or stop the movement of migrant workers across the country and that the government must take the necessary measures in this regard.
The Center told the superior court that migrant workers across the country were being transported by the government to their destinations, but that they had to wait their turn instead of starting to walk on foot amid the coronavirus or Covid pandemic -19.
A bank headed by Judge L Nageswara Rao declined to receive a request seeking a Center address to ask all district magistrates to identify stranded migrant workers and provide them with shelter and food before guaranteeing their free transportation to places. natives in light of the recent incident. in Aurangabad, where 16 workers were shot down by a freight train.
The bank, which also included Justices S K Kaul and B R Gavai, asked Attorney General Tushar Mehta if there was any way to prevent these migrant workers from walking on the roads.
Mehta said states are providing interstate transportation to migrant workers, but if people start walking on foot rather than waiting for transportation, then nothing can be done.
He said that the authorities can only ask these people not to start walking on foot, since using any force to stop them would be counterproductive.
Mehta told the bank, which was listening to the matter via video conference, that subject to the agreement between state governments, everyone would have the opportunity to travel to their destinations.
Lawyer Alakh Alok Srivastava, who had filed the guilty plea, referred to the recent incidents in Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, where migrant workers were killed in road accidents.
“How can we stop it?” The bank noted, adding that states should take necessary action on these issues.
The bank, which said it was not willing to listen to the statement, noted that it is impossible for the court to control who is walking and who is not.
Srivastava had filed the petition shortly after the Aurangabad incident in which 16 migrant workers, returning to Madhya Pradesh and sleeping on the train tracks, were hit by a freight train.
The provisional request, filed in a deleted PIL, said the deceased workers belonged to the Shahdol and Umaria districts of Madhya Pradesh and were walking from Jalna in Maharashtra to the Aurangabad railway station to board the trains and reach the home cities.
After walking for several kilometers, they decided to rest on the railroad tracks between Satana and Karmad, and a freight train cut their grass, he had said. Previously, the superior court had ordered the PIL to seek the welfare of migrant workers during the pandemic and the subsequent lockout, saying that the Center and the states are taking appropriate measures to provide relief.
The Center told the superior court that migrant workers across the country were being transported by the government to their destinations, but that they had to wait their turn instead of starting to walk on foot amid the coronavirus or Covid pandemic -19.
A bank headed by Judge L Nageswara Rao declined to receive a request seeking a Center address to ask all district magistrates to identify stranded migrant workers and provide them with shelter and food before guaranteeing their free transportation to places. natives in light of the recent incident. in Aurangabad, where 16 workers were shot down by a freight train.
The bank, which also included Justices S K Kaul and B R Gavai, asked Attorney General Tushar Mehta if there was any way to prevent these migrant workers from walking on the roads.
Mehta said states are providing interstate transportation to migrant workers, but if people start walking on foot rather than waiting for transportation, then nothing can be done.
He said that the authorities can only ask these people not to start walking on foot, since using any force to stop them would be counterproductive.
Mehta told the bank, which was listening to the matter via video conference, that subject to the agreement between state governments, everyone would have the opportunity to travel to their destinations.
Lawyer Alakh Alok Srivastava, who had filed the guilty plea, referred to the recent incidents in Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, where migrant workers were killed in road accidents.
“How can we stop it?” The bank noted, adding that states should take necessary action on these issues.
The bank, which said it was not willing to listen to the statement, noted that it is impossible for the court to control who is walking and who is not.
Srivastava had filed the petition shortly after the Aurangabad incident in which 16 migrant workers, returning to Madhya Pradesh and sleeping on the train tracks, were hit by a freight train.
The provisional request, filed in a deleted PIL, said the deceased workers belonged to the Shahdol and Umaria districts of Madhya Pradesh and were walking from Jalna in Maharashtra to the Aurangabad railway station to board the trains and reach the home cities.
After walking for several kilometers, they decided to rest on the railroad tracks between Satana and Karmad, and a freight train cut their grass, he had said. Previously, the superior court had ordered the PIL to seek the welfare of migrant workers during the pandemic and the subsequent lockout, saying that the Center and the states are taking appropriate measures to provide relief.
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