#SupremeCourt starts hearing suo motu matter on #MigrantWorkers. SG Tushar Mehta appears for the Central Govt as he gives our figures of more than 4200 trains having run, more than 1 Crore migrants reaching their home.
#SupremeCourt asks about those stranded on roads, to which SG replies this information has to come from the states.
SG adds out of 171 trains requisitioned now, #Maharashtra has asked for only 1 more shramik train. SC wonders if nobody wants to come back from #Maharashtra now.
Govt undertakes before the #SupremeCourt that a train will reach a state to ferry migrants within 24 hours of making a request.
SC says receiving states should now bring on record steps taken by them, employment etc for #MigrantWorkers who have come back.
SG Tushar Mehta opposes all intervention applications in the suo matter on #MigrantWorkers.
SG: Leave it to the Centre and states. But those who haven't contributed anything in #COVIDー19 can't be allowed to make submissions.
SC says it may not want to go into this right now.
Maharashtra Govt to SC: More than 11 lakh migrants have gone back, 38000 remaining.
#Delhi Govt: Around 4 lakh have gone back. Only 10,000 waiting to go.
SC: We will give 15 days to ferry all migrants who want to go back home. This shout be sufficient time.
#MigrantWorkers
SC to all states: Get all migrants registered at block-level & district-level.
States will have to generate employment for them. They should also facilitate their movement if they want to go back to other states for work. States will have to take care of the migrants, says SC.
#Rajasthan has an intriguing statistics to share with the #SupremeCourt. While 13.4 lakh #MigrantWorkers have come back, only 6 from #Rajasthan have gone back to their home states.
#Kerala Govt doesn't want to pay for transportation of #MigrantWorkers to other states. It cites flood etc to say state can't take this burden.
Centre tells it is the receiving state that has been paying for migrants from Kerala.
SC says migrants can't be charged in any case.
Indira Jaising requests #SupremeCourt to quash all FIRs lodged against #MigrantWorkers for violating #lockdown conditions by stepping out of houses, proceeding on foot or by cycles. "Don't add injury to their insult," she adds.
SC says it will consider.
SC declines to hear TMC MP Mahua Moitra & recall its previous order.
Court says it doesn't want to hear the MP right now.
"Everyone will start coming then. We have Centre and states, and we will only hear them right now...can't let these proceedings become a jamboree."
Sr adv KV Vishwanathan says transportation of #MigrantWorkers shouldn't stop even if states don't make advance payments.
He adds some donors want to arrange chartered flights too but the Govt should relax various cess involved.
No death in shramik trains due to hunger or lack of treatment: Govt tells #SupremeCourt.
SG Tushar Mehta refutes negligence by Railways, GRP, adding deaths happened due to pre-existing ailments, heart attacks etc.
#MigrantWorkers
Govt also requests SC not to issue new norms on quarantine for asymptomatic patients
Tushar Mehta to SC: Let the present system continue. "Let's focus on getting all migrants back".
#SupremeCourt to pass formal orders on Tuesday.
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