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PETITIONER:

MUKESH ADVANI

Vs.

RESPONDENT:

STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH

DATE OF JUDGMENT02/05/1985

BENCH:

DESAI, D.A.

BENCH:

DESAI, D.A.

VARADARAJAN, A. (J)

CITATION:

1985 AIR 1363 1985 SCR Supl. (1) 126

1985 SCC (3) 162 1985 SCALE (1)981

ACT:

Social Action Litigation-Exploitation of the workmen

from Tamil Nadu by the Mines contractors deprecated-Need for

the State protection of the poor and needy laborers who are

unable to negotiate on terms of equality, retierated-

Constitution of India, 1950. Articles 38, 41, 42, 43, Bonded

Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1974-Minimum Wages Act, 1948,

Payment of Bonus Act, 1965.

HEADNOTE:

Pursuant to an investigative report in the "Indian

Express" dated September 14, 1982, one of the advocates

practising in the Supreme Court addressed a letter to one of

the Judges of the Supreme Court depicting the horrid plight

of bonded labour from Tamil Nadu working in the stone

quarries at Raisen in Madhya Pradesh. It was alleged: (a)

Everyone recruited were paid a reimbursible advance of Rs.

1,000/- but the method of accounting is s