As over 400 such people from West Bengal are held illegally by Odisha police and charged with being: “foreigners”—Bangladeshis, in other words—the Calcutta High Court has responded strongly. The entire issue is set to flare up as a divisive plague that could one day engulf the entire nation
In its judgment in a suo motu matter titled “In Re: Problems and Miseries of Migrant Labourers”, the Suoreme Court has directed the Centre, States to complete the process of the portal for a national database for migrants and implement one nation one ration card scheme by 31 July.
The Supreme Court was told that the Central government had not come up with a solution on providing rations to migrant workers who did not have ration cards. The case is from 2020 when migrant labourers were forced to walk to their villages after the nationwide lockdown without any rations.
Supreme Court issues notice to West Bengal violence to Centre and Bengal government … National Women's Commission and NCHRC got approval to form party … Plaintiff has raised the demand for SIT investigation, fast track court and compensation.