Supreme Court’s ‘Social Justice Bench’ orders Centre to verify number of homeless in a time bound manner

The bench of Justices Madan B. Lokur and Uday Umesh Lalit, sitting for the first time as part of the ‘social justice bench' on Friday, ordered the Centre to verify the number of homeless people in the country in a time bound manner.Additional Solictior General P Narsimha Rao, however did submit that the Govt. was not clear about the number of homeless in the country. The Court then said,...