A Division Bench of Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal and Justice JJ Munir had earlier taken suo motu cognisance of a news report which disclosed that sanitation workers in Allahabad were cleaning open drains without protective gear.
The Bench had thus sought a response from different authorities in the State, including an explanation as to why machines were not being used wherever possible.
“In some of the photographs, the workers are in about chest-deep water, loaded with filth in a drain, without using any protective gear,” the Bench had noted in its order.
Source: Barandbench
