Covid-19: 'Not an expert body' on lodging, feeding migrant workers, says SC

The Supreme Court bench said it cannot take a "better policy decision" at this stage and moreover, it also does not want to interfere with the policy decisions for next ten-fifteen days

The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it is not an "expert" body to deal with the health and management issues of migrant workers living under a 21-day nationwide lockdown to stop the spread of the coronavirus and would ask the government to set up a helpline.

A bench comprising Chief Justice S A Bobde and justices S K Kaul and Deepak Gupta, through video conferencing, was hearing the plea filed by two civil rights activists seeking enforcement of fundamental right to life for migrant workers and payment of wages to them as they have been left without work or food