With reference to the Supreme Court's 2024 judgment in 'Jaggo v. Union of India', consider the following statements: 1. The Supreme Court ruled that all temporary workers in the private gig economy must be regularised within five years. 2. The Court held that misclassifying employees performing essential and recurring work as temporary violates Articles 14 and 16 of the Constitution. 3. The judgment clarified that the 2006 Umadevi precedent cannot be used as a blanket excuse to deny regularisation to long-serving irregular employees. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

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2 and 3 only — Statement 1 is incorrect because the judgment specifically addressed public sector employees, not the private gig economy. Statements 2 and 3 are correct as the Court linked the misclassification of essential public workers to violations of fundamental rights and clarified the distinction between illegal and irregular appointments under the Umadevi precedent.

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