Labourers least paid, least cared for, says Delhi HC

…by dangerous weapons, holding that the prosecution had failed to establish the intention or knowledge necessary to attract the graver charge. It also reduced his sentence from five years to three years’ imprisonment. “ A back-breaking hard day’s labour requires a sound peaceful sleep in the night to rejuvenate the body in order to enable it to assume and discharge next day’s assignments which invariably involve hard physical work.... This has become a regular and unending plight of the labourers in the country and to add salt to the injury, this class is least paid, least cared and least bothered, ” the court said. The case stems from an incident on the night of March 17, 2002, when Rajinder Kumar, a labourer at a shop in Lajpat Rai Market, was sleeping in its verandah. According to the court, Kumar objected to…