The Delhi High Court has observed that labourers in the country are “least paid and cared” for and that society has failed to value and respect their physical labour.
The high court’s observations came while deciding a man’s appeal challenging his conviction and five-year sentence for assaulting a labourer when he objected to the nuisance created by the convict and others while he was trying to sleep.
It modified the conviction of convict Veer Pal from the offence of attempt to murder to voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons, holding the requisite intention or knowledge to attract the former was not established in the facts of the case.
The court also modified the five-year jail term 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 involves hard physical work.
“This has become a regular and unending plight
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