NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday sought to know from the Centre whether it had any plans on transporting stuck migrant workers to their home states but admonished activist lawyer Prashant Bhushan for repeatedly tweeting about public losing faith in the court by telling him, "if you had no faith in the institution, you should not appear before us."The admonition came from a bench of Justices N V Ramana Sanjay Kishan Kaul and B R Gavai when Bhushan was appearing for PIL petitioner Jagdeep Chhonkar who was seeking a direction to the Centre and state governments to provide buses for transportation of stuck migrant workers to their homes. Bhushan said that when the state governments were arranging buses to bring back students stuck in Kota , why could they not do the same for migrant workers.When the bench observed that it was a matter requiring coordinated action between the Centre and the states, solicitor general Tushar Mehta said that the Centre is already in talks with states to find a way out for migrant workers stuck at various places since March 25, when the lockdown began. He also said that the basic needs of migrant workers are being taken care of by the governments.Bhushan cited a study and said 96% of migrant workers did not receive ration from government, 90% did not receive wages and most are in a pitiable condition and yet the apex court believed the government. When he made statements indicating that the court was towing government line leading to loss of public faith in the institution, the bench retorted, "we never accepted anything said by government blindly. We have always sought response from the government on important humanitarian issues. After carefully scrutinising of the affidavits, we passed appropriate orders."Justice Kaul reminded Bhushan about his recent tweets about the SC and said, "If you do not have faith in the institution, you should not appear before us." The bench said, "Such remarks damaged the institution. We are neither in favour of the government nor against anyone. We examine the matters on merit and pass suitable orders in the given situation." SG termed the study cited by Bhushan was palpably wrong and told the bench that whenever he lost a case, he habitually runs to TV cameras to declare that it is a black day for the judiciary.Bhushan said that he never said he did not have faith in the institution. Referring to his tweets and remarks during the arguments, the bench said he was doing a disservice to the institution. It then asked the SG to take instruction from the government within a week on Chhonkar's petition seeking a direction to the governments to provide buses to transport these workers to their homes.Chhonkar said as per 2011 census there were over four crore migrant workers but after the sudden lockdown to control the speed of Covid-19 disease, the governments have provided shelter and food to only a fraction of them. "A large number of migrant workers, stranded across the country for want of transport services, want to go back to their hometowns to be with their families. To forcibly keep them to their place of work is both inhuman and violative of their fundamental right to free movement," he said.