Court : Andhra Pradesh
Reported in : 2005(1)ALD545
..... , a pil has to satisfy one or more of the following parameters, which are not exclusive but merely descriptive:where the concerns underlying a petition arc not individualist but are shared widely by a large number of people (bonded labour, under-trial prisoners, prison inmates); where the affected persons belong to the disadvantaged sections of society (women, children, bonded labour unorganized labour etc. ..... while it is expected of a responsible employer to take all aspects into consideration including welfare of the labour before taking any policy decision that, by itself, will not entitle the employees to demand a right of hearing or consultation prior to the taking of the decision.30. .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Madhya Pradesh
Reported in : (1995)IIILLJ24MP
..... legality of the 'panch-faisla' apart, poonamchand being a 'bonded-labour' of the respondent, it was incumbent upon the respondent to prove not only the genuineness of the award and its proceeding but also its fairness. ..... admittedly the respondent is a village patel, while the appellant's father a bonded-labour. ..... admittedly poonamchand was labour working for the respondent. .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Madhya Pradesh
Reported in : 2009(1)MPHT99
..... . (1984) 3 scc 461, an organisation motivated to release bonded labourers in the country addressed a letter to a judge of the supreme court complaining that in two named stone quarries in faridabad district there were a large number of labourers from different states working under inhuman conditions and many of whom were bonded labourers and prayed for issuing a writ for proper implementation of constitutional and statutory provisions ..... the petitioner is an organization of farmers, adivasis, labourers, fish workers and other people from the narmada valley affected by the construction of the sardar sarovar project on narmada river and has filed this writ petition as a public interest litigation alleging various irregularities .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Supreme Court of India
Reported in : AIR1993SC860; 1993Supp(3)SCC290
..... 11/50), all the members of which(1) are bonded labourers freed and discharged in accordance with section 4 of the bonded labour system (abolition) act 1976 or(2) belong to scheduled castes or scheduled tribes as defined in the constitution of india.clause 35 of the schedule to the contract provides : all quarry fees, royalties, octroi dues and ground rent for stocking ..... it is not the case of the respondents that they are only works contractors to supply the labour and that the government has to supply the material to execute the works. ..... repeatedly we asked the counsel whether the contractors are only works contract to supply labour to which the answer is in the negative. .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Allahabad
..... . these are not exclusive but merely descriptive: ____ where the concerns underlying petition are not individualist but are shared widely by a large number of people (bonded labour, undertrial prisoners, prison inmates).where the affected person belong to the disadvantaged section of society (women, children, bonded labour, unorganized labour etc ..... . the courts exercising their power of judicial review found to their dismay that poorest of the poor, the depraved (sic), the illiterate, the urban and rural unorganized labour sector, women, children, those handicapped by "ignorance, indigence and illiteracy" and other downtrodden persons have either no access to justice or had been denied justice .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Andhra Pradesh
..... i am 18-11-99 date vaartha dina patrika reading, "guntakal pariseelana gruham baluniche (neglected juvenile) that superintendent taking bonded labour" after seeing the head line and after reading the news item wherein juvenile house board chairman prasad reddy in observation home a boy veeresh, the superintendent bala prasad in anantapur in his house is taking labour and that was the news item. ..... the operative portion of it reads: "on 18.11.1999 it was published in news paper 'vaartha' that one juvenile was subjected to bonded labour by the accused by keeping him at his house in anantapur using his services as child labour seeing it. ..... bail bond enclosed. .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Andhra Pradesh
..... i am 18-11-99 date vaartha dina patrika reading, "guntakal pariseelana gruham baluniche (neglected juvenile) that superintendent taking bonded labour" after seeing the head line and after reading the news item wherein juvenile house board chairman prasad reddy in observation home a boy veeresh, the superintendent bala prasad in anantapur in his house is taking labour and that was the news item. ..... the operative portion of it reads: "on 18.11.1999 it was published in news paper 'vaartha' that one juvenile was subjected to bonded labour by the accused by keeping him at his house in anantapur using his services as child labour seeing it. ..... bail bond enclosed. .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Punjab and Haryana
..... it is the own case of the petitioner that the workers were being kept as bonded labour and engaged under force and it was only by virtue of the directions of the apex court that they were released in 2003 and, therefore, the application which has been filed beyond the period of limitation in ..... it was admitted that a writ petition had been filed before the apex court for issuing directions for release of the bonded labour, which had been released from the said quarry on 15.06.2003. ..... of 2014 (o & m) 1 in the high court of punjab and haryana at chandigarh cwp no.196 of 2014 (o & m) date of decision: 31.01.2014 suraj bhan @ surja singh ...petitioner(s) versus the authority appointed under minimum wages act, 1948-cum-regional labour commissioner and another ...respondent(s) coram: hon'ble mr.justice g.s.sandhawalia present: mr.raj kaushik, advocate, for the petitioner. ..... 29.09.2009 (annexure p-3) passed by respondent no.1-authority under the minimum wages act, 1948 (in short 'the act').vide the said order, the present petitioner had been asked to deposit a sum of `8,10,000/- with the regional labour commissioner within 30 days from the date of receipt of the order. .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Karnataka
..... (i) dispossessed tenants who are not registered as occupants; (ii) xxx (iii) landless agricultural labourers (iv) landless persons or other persons residing in villages in the same panchayat area whose gross annual income does not exceed rupees twenty thousand and ex- military personnel whose gross annual income does not exceed rupees twenty- two thousand; (v) released bonded labourers; xxx xxx.29. ..... section-77(1) of the act indicates the persons and the manner in which they could be granted lands namely, dispossessed tenants who are not registered as occupants, displaced 26 tenants having no land; landless agricultural labourers; landless persons or other persons residing in villages in the same panchayat area whose gross annual income does not exceed rupees twenty thousand and ex-military personnel whose gross annual income does not exceed rs.25, .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Supreme Court of India
Reported in : AIR1981SC298; 1980LabIC1325; (1981)ILLJ209SC; (1981)1SCC246; [1981]2SCR185
..... the authentic voice of our culture, voiced by all the great builders of modern india, stood for abolition of the hardships of the pariah, the mlecha, the bonded labour, the hungry, hard-working half-slave, whose liberation was integral to our independence. ..... it is a fact of our social history and a blot on our cultural heritage that 135 million men and women, described as sc&sts;, have been suffering as 'suppressed classes', denied human dignity and languishing as de facto bonded labour. ..... when there is a multitude, to cheer them on but blessed indeed is he who manifests the same unselfishness and devotion to duty in the smallest of acts, unnoticed by all-and it is you who are actually doing this, ye ever-trampled labouring classes of india ! .....
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