The Madurai Bench of Madras High Court on Tuesday sought a response from the State government in a public interest litigation petition filed by a dress presser from Madurai who sought a direction to the State government to provide COVID-19 financial assistance to unregistered washermen/washerwomen and dress pressers .
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A Division Bench of Justices M. Sathyanarayanan and P. Rajamanickam ordered notice to the State government. The PIL petition, filed by K.P. Manikandan from Madurai, said the COVID-19 relief measures should be extended to unregistered washermen/washerwomen and dress pressers, as they were finding it hard to make ends meet. The case was adjourned till August 7.
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