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The State should act as a model employer. It cannot be permitted to exploit a human being for 11 years, violate the law and show the petitioner the exit door without just cause or legal justification. In the present case, I feel that the Labour Court was not justified in doing what it has done. The matter required to be dealt with some sensitivity. This Court would not countenance that daily wagers are to be dealt with inhumanly or that they are expendable fodder whose services can be utilized for the benefit of the State for 11 years and then be thrown out like pariahs. This award disturbs me. We cannot permit the jungle law to prevail in the Forest Department. Such workman must have the protection of their life, liberty and right to exist in some comfort by securing to them adequate means of livelihood protected under Articles 21 and 39 of the Constitution of India."