The Gujarat High Court rebuked the state government for delayed compensation to 16 families of deceased sanitation workers involved in manual scavenging and directed an explanation through an affidavit. Hearing a PIL filed by NGO Manav Garima, the court sought details on the adoption of the 2013 anti-manual scavenging law and criticized the government's incomplete payments to the victims' families. It also addressed an incident in Bhavnagar and permitted the NGO to add the civic body as a respondent, demanding explanations regarding the occurrence.
