Supreme Court: The Bench of Dipak Misra, CJ and AM Khanwilkar and Dr. DY Chandrachud, JJ asked the Central government to file a comprehensive status report, giving details on the condition of Rohingya camps in Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir and Delhi-NCR after Senior advocate Colin Gonsalves submitted before the Court that the conditions at the Rohingya camps are “unhygienic and pathetic”.
Colin Gonsalves, appearing for one of the petitioners, told the Court that the refugees had no access to clean sanitation facilities such as toilets and clean drinking water, that was leading to their deaths and that the Centre and the states, hosting these refugees, should be asked to provide better hygienic facilities at these camps.
The Rohingya immigrants, who fled to India after violence in the Rakhine state of Myanmar, have settled in Jammu, Hyderabad, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi-NCR and Rajasthan. More than 600,000 refugees are languishing in Bangladeshi refugee camps after fleeing a brutal Myanmar army campaign launched in August last year.
Source: ANI
