Kathmandu, April 17
The Supreme Court today issued an interim order asking the government to safely transport stranded poor people to their hometowns after conducting rapid tests on them. Daily wagers and poor people, who have lost shelter and jobs in urban centres due to the extended nationwide lockdown, have been walking for hours to reach home, risking their lives.
The order was issued by a division bench of justices Ananda Mohan Bhattarai and Sapana Pradhan Malla in response to a writ petition filed by Senior Advocate Prakash Mani Sharma and others against the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers and others.
The apex court observed that the government’s primary responsibility was to transport those who had left cities for their hometowns due to lack of shelter and food to their homes safely.
The court ordered the government to conduct rapid tests on the stranded people and transport healthy people to their houses free of cost.
The court also told the government to isolate or quarantine the stranded people if they were suspected of having contracted COVID-19.
The government was told to give priority to women, elderly people, children and differently-abled people while transporting stranded people to their destinations.
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