Supreme Court · 2011 INSC 536 · Decided 2 August 2011
Budhadev Karmaskar v. State of West Bengal
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2011 INSC 536 · [2011] 9 S.C.R. 680
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 135/2010
- Decided
- 2 August 2011
- Bench
- MARKANDEY KATJU, GYAN SUDHA MISRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Hearing Adjourned
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 21
Headnote
Public Interest Litigation - Issue as regards the problems of sex workers in the country - Held: Sex workers are also c human beings and thus, are entitled to a life of dignity - Sex workers can lead a life of dignity if they earn their livelihood through their technical skills instead of selling panel consisting of senior advocates and NGO • constituted by Supreme Court, to monitor rehabilitation of sex D workers - The Secretaries, Social Welfare Departments of the ~ State Governments and the Central Government to meet the panel constituted to discuss how proper schemes in the
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