SC declines to intervene in Delhi civic employees' strike

New Delhi, Feb 4  The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to entertain a plea seeking direction to three civic bodies in the capital to take steps to resolve the strike by their employees that has resulted garbage piling up in the city.

"Go to the high court," the apex court bench headed by the Chief Justice T.S. Thakur said as the counsel for the petitioner Rahul Birla told the court that the Delhi High Court has adjourned the hearing without passing any directions to the civic body.

Dismissing the plea as withdraw, Chief Justice Thakur told the petitioner's counsel: "Why do you file such petitions. Go to the high court."