Question

"The victim cannot be considered to be any match to the multinational companies or the government with whom in the conditions that the victims or their representatives were after the disaster physically, mentally, financially, economically and also because of the position of litigation would have to contend. People needed the State's protection and should come within the umbrella of State's sovereignty to assert, establish and maintain their rights against the wrongdoers in this mass disaster. In that perspective, it is jurisprudentially possible to apply the principle of parens patriae doctrine to the victims..."
In which Constitution Bench judgment, the Supreme Court of India enunciated the doctrine of parens patriae:

• A. D.S. Nakara v. Union of India, AIR 1983 SC 130
• B. M.C.Mehta v. Union of India, AIR 1987 SC 1086
• C. Charan Lal Sahu v. Union of India, AIR 1990 SC 1480
• D. E. P. Royappa v. State of T.N., AIR 1974 SC 555

Answer 1

Answer: (C)

Charan Lal Sahu v. Union of India, AIR 1990 SC 1480

Answer 2

The correct option is (C): Charan Lal Sahu v. Union of India, AIR 1990 SC 1480