The Madras High Court has been closing down most of the public interest litigation (PIL) petitions filed during COVID-19 with respect to issues such as non-availability of oxygen cylinders, hospital beds, and medicines. However, if there is one issue which the court has refused to close as infructuous, it is that of the mandatory registration of migrant labourers.
On January 24, a public interest litigation (PIL) petition filed by K. Vijayan in 2020 was listed before the first Division Bench of Chief Justice Sanjay V. Gangapurwala and Justice D. Bharatha Chakravarthy. V. Ajoy Khose, counsel for the petitioner, said the case was filed for effective implementation of the Inter-State Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1979.
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