Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Centre to come up with a "considerate" scheme to regularise 12,000 civilian porters working with the Indian Army, saying they should "see some light at the end of the tunnel". The bench, which seemed unhappy with the scheme, said these porters should look at the scheme as "a way forward and can say will have something for their subsistence." Singh had accused the Centre of not complying with the 2013 order of the apex court. When the porters appealed before Armed Forces Tribunal, it did not hear the matter on the dispute of jurisdiction. The apex court, however, had said it was keeping the issue of jurisdiction open.

Source: dna September 14, 2016 19:07 UTC