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PETITIONER:

CONSUMER EDUCATION & RESEARCH CENTRE AND OTHERS

Vs.

RESPONDENT:

UNION OF INDIA & OTHERS

DATE OF JUDGMENT27/01/1995

BENCH:

RAMASWAMY, K.

BENCH:

RAMASWAMY, K.

AHMADI A.M. (CJ)

PUNCHHI, M.M.

CITATION:

1995 AIR 922 1995 SCC (3) 42

JT 1995 (1) 636 1995 SCALE (1)354

ACT:

HEADNOTE:

JUDGMENT:

1. Occupational accidents and diseases remain the most

appalling human tragedy of modem industry and one of its

most serious forms of economic waste. Occupational health

hazards and diseases to the workmen employed in asbestos

industries are of our concern in this writ

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petition filed under Article 32 of the Constitution by way

of public interest litigation at the behest of the

petitioner, an accredited Organisation. At the inception of

filing the writ petition in the year 1986, though it

highlighted the lacuna in diverse provisions of law

applicable to the asbestos industry, due to orders of-this

Court passed from time to time, though wide gaps have been

bridged by subordinate legislation, yet lot more need to be

done. So the petitioner seeks