New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the state of Maharashtra to file an additional affidavit in the court clarifying its position on the stranded migrants. The court said that though as per the state government's filed affidavit, food is being provided to all the workers, it thinks that it is far from the truth.
"File a proper affidavit. You have treated this is as an adversarial litigation," said the top court to Maharashtra today. Adding on further it said that the state can not claim of everything being fine and it is providing food and transportation to all.
The bench led by Justice Ashok Bhushan was hearing a suo moto case on miseries of migrants affected due to the lockdown. In the last hearing of the case, the court had asked the governments to comply with its orders directing free transportation, provision of food and employment to the migrants. There were petitions seeking similar demands by Medha Patekar, Centre for Public Interest Litigation(CPIL) and Nichiketa Vajpayee. PIL by CPIL was adjourned for hearing next week.