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1. A letter addressed by the President of the Mahabubnagar District Palamoori Contract Labour Union, one Sri P.N. Swamy, detailing the alleged misfortunes suffered by about 200 Palamoori labourers at work at NPCL site at Mallapur Village, Karwar District, was treated as Public Interest Writ Petition. Notice thereon was issued initially to the Nagarjuna Construction Ltd., Mallapur Village, Karwar, the Principal Employer, the Commissioner of Labour, Karnataka, and the Deputy Commissioner and District Magistrate, Karwar, enclosing the copy of the letter received (hereinafter referred to as respondents 1 to 3).

2. It was alleged in the letter that Mahabubnagar District in Andhra Pradesh is a backward District, that there is lack of employment prospects in the said District, that 7 to 8 lakh people migrate to other States in search of employment, that these workers are called "Palamoori Labourers", tbat 200 such workers are engaged by M/s. Nagarjuna Constructions Limited, the 1st respondent herein, to "work at NPCL site, Mallapur Village, Karwar, that these workers are not registered as inter-State migrant workmen under the Inter-State Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1979 (hereinafter referred to as the "Inter-State Workmen Act"), that the employer is not following the provisions of the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 (hereinafter referred to as "The Contract Labour Act"), that a petition was made to the District Magistrate, Karwar, in that behalf early on 30-12-1995, but no action was taken therein and it was in these circumstances that the present letter was addressed to the Hon'ble Chief Justice of this High Court. In the letter it was specifically alleged that these workers work around 12 hours a day, that they are paid only Rs. 300/- a month after adjusting the advance paid and they are bonded labourers as defined in the Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976. In particular, it is stated as follows: