
The Karnataka High Court today pulled up the state government for not framing a comprehensive rehabilitation scheme for evicted migrant workers, noting that the COVID-19 pandemic cannot be used as an excuse for failure to do so.
The Court made this observation while dealing with a petition challenging the recent forceful eviction of thousands of migrant workers near Marathahalli in Bangalore, on the pretext that they were illegal Bangladeshi immigrants.
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