Supreme Court of India

Occupational Health and Safety Association v. Union of India and Others

Neutral citation
Reported as [2014] 4 S.C.R. 10
Bench K.S. Radhakrishnan and A.K. Sikri JJ.
Decided 31 January 2014

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3 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.

From the headnote

CONSTITUTION OF IND/ , 1950: c Art. 21 rlw Arts. 39, 41 and 42 - Right to health - Workers working in Coal Fired Thermal Power Plants(CFTPPs) - Exposed to serious health hazards and occupational health disorders - Held: Right to live with human dignity enshrined in Art. 21 derives its life breath from the Directive Principles 0 of State Policy, particularly clauses (e) and (f) of Art. 39, Arts. 41 and 42 -- Those Articles include protection of health and strength of workers and just and humane conditions of work - - When workers are engaged in such hazardous and risky jobs, then

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 2 relied on · 1 referred to

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