KERALA HC SOUGHT MEASURES TAKEN IN THE CASE OF MANUAL SCAVENGING DEATHS
Mar 27, 2021
Kerala HC has sought directions in the case of the suicide of Narayana, a contract labourer of the Urban Development Department, to determine whether he was compelled to do manual scavenging. The Court has added that in the compliance report submitted by the state govt., they have uncomplicated the whole matter by expressing the Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013 will not apply. It was directed to file the measures taken by the state govt, on this behalf.