Supreme Court reserves Karnataka HC verdict on tobacco pic warning
The attorney general submitted that the implementation of Regulations.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday reserved its orders seeking stay of the Karnataka high court judgment quashing the rules mandating 85 per cent pictorial warning on both sides of tobacco products.
A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A.M. Kanwilkar and D.Y. Chandrachud after hearing attorney-general K.K. Venugopal for the Centre and others said it would pass orders later.
According to the Centre and other petitioners the high court has quashed the operation, implementation and effect of the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Packaging and Labeling) Amendment Rules, 2014, framed under the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2003.
The attorney general submitted that the implementation of Regulations mandating 85 per cent pictorial warning on both sides of tobacco products was a culmination of an extremely long, cumbersome and excruciating fight by public heath activists, people whose life and family had been ruined by tobacco, aga-inst the mighty tobacco industry.