<p>The high court directed the government to submit a comprehensive rehabilitation scheme to help labourers, who became homeless after their sheds in Marathahalli Police Station limits were demolished last month.</p>.<p>Chief Justice Abhay S Oka-led division bench issued the direction on Monday while hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) petition by the People’s Union for Civil Liberties.</p>.<p>The petition has questioned the demolition of hundreds of huts at Marathhalli subdivision in Bellandur after the residents were branded ‘Bangladeshis’.</p>.<p>During the hearing, an advocate representing the government submitted that “the Marathahalli station police inspector B P Girish has been suspended for providing false information that led to the incident (demolition). The residents of the sheds have been identified as migrants from Assam and Telangana.”</p>.<p>The bench said the government and the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike were responsible for rendering the migrants homeless.</p>.<p>“Their (labourers’) fundamental rights have been violated. Therefore, find out ways to rehabilitate them, and identify all those who were affected by the demolition drive,” the bench said.</p>.<p>“Along with the Bengaluru Urban deputy commissioner, find out what arrangements can be made to rehabilitate them. Submit a detailed project report within a month,” it said, adjourning the case for further hearing on February 26.</p>
<p>The high court directed the government to submit a comprehensive rehabilitation scheme to help labourers, who became homeless after their sheds in Marathahalli Police Station limits were demolished last month.</p>.<p>Chief Justice Abhay S Oka-led division bench issued the direction on Monday while hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) petition by the People’s Union for Civil Liberties.</p>.<p>The petition has questioned the demolition of hundreds of huts at Marathhalli subdivision in Bellandur after the residents were branded ‘Bangladeshis’.</p>.<p>During the hearing, an advocate representing the government submitted that “the Marathahalli station police inspector B P Girish has been suspended for providing false information that led to the incident (demolition). The residents of the sheds have been identified as migrants from Assam and Telangana.”</p>.<p>The bench said the government and the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike were responsible for rendering the migrants homeless.</p>.<p>“Their (labourers’) fundamental rights have been violated. Therefore, find out ways to rehabilitate them, and identify all those who were affected by the demolition drive,” the bench said.</p>.<p>“Along with the Bengaluru Urban deputy commissioner, find out what arrangements can be made to rehabilitate them. Submit a detailed project report within a month,” it said, adjourning the case for further hearing on February 26.</p>