AIBE XIX 2024 Set A Question 60

In the early 1980s, a social activist group discovered severe exploitation of labourers working in stone quarries near Delhi. The workers, including many children, were working in extremely hazardous conditions, living in makeshift shelters, and were effectively trapped in a cycle of debt and forced labour. The conditions revealed systematic violations of fundamental human rights. The Supreme Court was approached to look into the dire circumstances of the working persons there and one of the following views of the Court was sustained in the said case, identify from the following-

1. A The Court established that-the right to free legal aid is a mere directive principle and cannot be enforced as a fütudamental right.
2. B The judgment primarily focused on providing monetary compensation to the affected labourers without addressing systemic issues of bonded labour.
3. C The Supreme Court recognized the right against forced labour as a fundamental right derived from the right to life and human dignity under Article 21. Official answer
4. D The Court ruled that only government agencies, and not social activists, could file petitions concerning labour rights.