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3 Dec 2022

India: Swiggy strike in Kochi continues into third week, Kerala High Court directs police to ensure law & order

"Swiggy partners' strike: Kerala HC directs police to ensure law and order in Kochi", 3 December 2022

Following the failure of the tripartite talks held in the presence of the state labour officials last month which failed to find a solution with regards to increased wages, Swiggy delivery boys in nine out of the 11 delivery zones at the commercial capital of the state- Kochi is on an indefinite strike...
The Kerala High Court has directed the State police to ensure that strike by Swiggy delivery partners (DPs) does not affect the law and order situation...

...It also asked the law enforcement officers to see that the Swiggy officials, its employees and other DPs are unharmed.

The present plea was moved by Bundl Technologies Pvt Ltd (Swiggy) to provide police protection at its office premises, restaurants, and its DPs in the event of any illegal use of force by the other DPs who are currently on strike.

Swiggy in its plea pointed out that a few persons who are working as DPs had approached them...these persons were intimidating other DPs to stop work, through force and threats of violence, due to which several complaints were made...

...Therefore, Swiggy approached the Court for police protection to declare that the DPs have no authority to call for and hold strikes by using violence,...