Advocate Alakh Alok Srivastava, who had filed the plea, referred to recent incidents of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh where migrant workers were killed in accidents on highways
Current Affairs : The Supreme Court Friday said it is outlandish for courts to screen or stop the development of transient laborers the nation over and it is for the legislature to make essential move in such manner.
The Center told the top court that vagrant specialists the nation over were being given transportation by the legislature to their goals however they need to sit tight for their turn instead of beginning strolling by walking in the midst of coronavirus or COVID-19 pandemic.
A seat headed by Justice L Nageswara Rao would not engage an application looking for a course to the Center to ask all District Magistrates to recognize abandoned transient specialists and give cover, food to them before guaranteeing their free transportation to local places taking into account the ongoing occurrence at Aurangabad in which 16 laborers were cut somewhere near a products train.
The seat, which additionally included Justices S K Kaul and B R Gavai, asked Solicitor General Tushar Mehta whether there was any approach to prevent these transients laborers from strolling on the streets.
Mehta said states are giving between state transport to the transient laborers yet in the event that the individuals begin strolling by walking as opposed to sitting tight for transportation, at that point there is no hope.
He said specialists can just demand these individuals not to begin strolling by walking as utilizing any power to stop them would be counter-beneficial.
Aditi Mehta 