Ensure payment of dues to sugarcane farmers: HC to UP

Allahabad High Court today directed the Uttar Pradesh government to ensure that dues of sugarcane farmers, running into crores of rupees, were recovered from sugar mill owners and paid to farmers at the earliest.
A division bench of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justice Dilip Gupta said, "It is the duty of the state government to use all possible measures under the law and see to it that farmers' dues are paid to them after being recovered from mill owners."
The court fixed July 24 as the next date of hearing.
The order was passed on a Public Interest Litigation filed by Rashtriya Mazdoor Sangathan.

The petition alleged that sugarcane farmers in the state were being "driven to suicide" on account of non-payment of dues which ran into crores of rupees.