The High Court of Karnataka on Wednesday takes suo motu cognisance of a newspaper report, which had highlighted that manual scavenging is continuing in the State despite ban imposed on such a practice in law.
“After several decades of our independence, somebody, who is our brother in the society and merely due to his misfortune that he took birth in a particular community and carrying the stamp of one caste, is required to do these things (manual scavenging). Is it not a shame on humanity...Is it this for what we all are here?“ a Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Prasanna B. Varale and Justice Krishna S. Dixit observed.
The Bench requested advocate Sridhar Prabhu to assist the court as amicus curiae while directing the registry to prepare a PIL petition and submit for court’s consideration based on the newspaper report published with the headline, ‘despite ban, manual scavenging continues.’
