Reinstate bus drivers diagnosed with color blindness and pay them back wages: HC to MSRTC
(WorldNews India)

Observing that ‘the financial, emotional and mental injuries suffered by the bus drivers cannot simply be measured in terms of money,’ the Bombay High Court on Thursday pulled up the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) for not giving alternate jobs to 14 drivers, whose services were discontinued on the ground that they had been diagnosed with colour blindness. The Court said that if the employer refuses to give alternate jobs, it would be against their fundamental rights and directed the MSRTC to reinstate petitioner drivers, who were terminated last year and not paid salaries for over two years since April, 2018. A division bench of Justices S J Kathawalla and R...