State Can’t Avoid Liability To Compensate For Death Of Manual Scavengers On Work By Citing Its ‘Inability’ To Stop Manual Scavenging: Madras HC [Read Order]

The Madras High Court has observed that the state is under a bounden duty to prohibit manual scavenging and it cannot avoid its liability to compensate manual scavengers who lose their lives in course of manual scavenging, by reason of the inability of the State to stop manual scavenging.This observation was made by the bench headed by Chief Justice Indira Banerjee while disposing a PIL...