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Night
shelters should stay till cold abates: Apex court
Wednesday December 15, 2010 09:36:03 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The Supreme
Court Wednesday directed state governments not to remove any night
shelters for the homeless till the biting cold abates.
The court said the night shelters should be retained till the end
of February.
The apex court bench of Justice Dalveer Bhandari and Justice
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The court said it hoped that media reports of two night shelters
having been demolished in Delhi were not true.
The court orders came during the hearing on a suit seeking
adequate number of night shelters for the urban homeless during
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The court also reviewed the steps taken by state governments to
provide night shelters to the homeless.
In its earlier order, the court directed state governments to
provide all facilities to the poor using night shelters.
The direction came in the wake of the report by apex court
commissioner N.C. Saxena and special commissioner Harsh Mader
pointing to the denial of the right to food and shelter to people
living on the streets of Delhi.
The issue will come up for hearing Thursday.
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