ABSTRACT
News has come in that on May 26, 2020, the Supreme Court took suo motu cognisance of the problems and miseries of migrant labourers stranded in different parts of the country. The first among many petitions pertaining to the migrants was filed by Alakh Alok Srivastava. The petition was in the public interest, and the Supreme Court recorded in its order of March 31, 2020, that it “highlighted the plight of thousands of migrant labourers who, along with their families, were walking hundreds of kilometres from their work-place to their villages/towns”. According to the status report, panic was caused by fake news that the lockdown would last for more than three months. So, the migrant labourers chose to believe fake news rather than the hon'ble prime minister who had announced only a three-week lockdown. Well-meaning persons approach the Supreme Court for the enforcement of the constitutional and statutory rights of those who have no access to justice.
