Constitution Section 24 — Prohibition of employment of children in factories, etc
Part III — FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS — Right against Exploitation
Constitutional
Summary
No child under fourteen years old may be employed to work in a factory or mine, or be made to work in any other hazardous job.
Official Text
No child below the age of fourteen years shall be employed to work in any factory or mine or engaged in any other hazardous employment.
Related Judgments
- SOCIETY FOR UN-AIDED P.SCHOOL OF RAJASTHAN vs U.O.I. & ANR — Supreme Court of India (2012)
- LABOURERS WORKING ON SALAL HYDRO-PROJECT vs STATE OF JAMMU & KASHMIR AND OTHERS — Supreme Court of India (1983)
- BANDHUA MUKTI MORCHA ETC. vs UNION OF INDIA AND ORS — Supreme Court of India (1997)
- KAUSHAL KISHOR vs STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH & ORS — Supreme Court of India (2023)
