News Desk, AnyTV, New Delhi
Published by: Amit Mandal
Updated Fri, 11 Mar 2022 08:24 PM IST
Summary
The bench, while dismissing the PIL, asked the workers to approach the concerned authorities or the courts.
The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a PIL seeking release of salaries of over 1200 daily wage workers working in Pilibhit Tiger Reserve, Dudhwa Tiger Reserve, Amangarh Tiger Reserve and Katarnia Ghat Wildlife Sanctuary in Uttar Pradesh. who have reportedly not been paid for the last 13 months. A bench of Justices S Abdul Nazeer and Krishna Murari heard the arguments of PIL petitioner Gaurav Kumar Bansal and observed that it would be appropriate that the aggrieved employees approach the authorities concerned.
The bench, while dismissing the PIL, asked the workers to approach the concerned authorities or the courts. Bansal had personally filed the PIL. He had sought a direction to the Centre, the Uttar Pradesh government and the National Tiger Conservation Authority to constitute a high-level committee to suggest measures to mitigate the hardships of daily wage workers.
The petitioner claimed that he has legally spoken to more than 20 such daily wage earners and they have come to know that their families are living in a very pathetic condition due to non-payment of salaries for the last 11 months. Even the wife of one of such daily wage laborers had committed suicide.
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The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a PIL seeking release of salaries of over 1200 daily wage workers working in Pilibhit Tiger Reserve, Dudhwa Tiger Reserve, Amangarh Tiger Reserve and Katarnia Ghat Wildlife Sanctuary in Uttar Pradesh. who have reportedly not been paid for the last 13 months. A bench of Justices S Abdul Nazeer and Krishna Murari heard the arguments of PIL petitioner Gaurav Kumar Bansal and observed that it would be appropriate that the aggrieved employees approach the authorities concerned.
The bench, while dismissing the PIL, asked the workers to approach the concerned authorities or the courts. Bansal had personally filed the PIL. He had sought a direction to the Centre, the Uttar Pradesh government and the National Tiger Conservation Authority to constitute a high-level committee to suggest measures to mitigate the hardships of daily wage workers.
The petitioner claimed that he has legally spoken to more than 20 such daily wage earners and they have come to know that their families are living in a very pathetic condition due to non-payment of salaries for the last 11 months. Even the wife of one of such daily wage laborers had committed suicide.