Updated: Share Article AAA The High Court of Karnataka on Tuesday observed that two labourers had lost their lives in Kalaburagi on January 28 owing to the failure of the State government’s official machinery to implement the law prohibiting manual scavenging. The court directed the government to submit the particulars of the First Information Report registered in connection the deaths of two labourers, who were engaged to clean a manhole by a private firm, appointed by the Karnataka Urban Water Supply and Drainage Board, for maintaining underground pipes. A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka and Justice Sachin Shankar Magadum passed the order while hearing the two separate PIL petitions filed the All India Council for Trade Unions and the High Court Legal Services Committee complaining about non-implementation of the provisions of the Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013.