Q.Which is a Fundamental Rights violation and why: not paying minimum wages / banning a book / banning loudspeakers after 9pm / making a speech.
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Start your 14-day free trial to unlock the full solution →Among not paying minimum wages, banning a good book, banning the use of loudspeakers after 9 p.m.,
and a person making a speech, it is the banning of a good book (without a valid justification) that
represents a Fundamental Rights violation -- because it directly restricts freedom of expression
without falling within any of the recognised "reasonable restriction" grounds.
Not paying workers the minimum wage is a serious wrong and a violation of labour law, but it is not,
by itself, a violation of a Fundamental Right in the strict constitutional sense -- minimum wages are
protected mainly through ordinary labour legislation and the Directive Principles (which call for a
living wage), rather than through Part III's enforceable rights, unless the underlying conditions
amount to forced labour under Article 23.
Banning the use of loudspeakers after 9 p.m. is a reasonable restriction on the freedom of speech and
expression, not a violation -- it is a narrowly targeted, time-bound rule aimed at protecting public
peace and other people's right to a reasonable environment (sleep, rest), which courts have upheld as
a legitimate, proportionate limit.
A person simply making a speech is the exercise of a Fundamental Right (freedom of speech), not a
violation of one -- there is nothing here to identify as wrongful unless the speech itself falls …
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