The Supreme Court on Friday permitted the export of over 1,000 tonnes of already manufactured insecticide endosulfan, subject to strict monitoring and supervision by officials of the customs and excise department and the environment and forests ministry.
The Supreme Court on Friday permitted the export of over 1,000 tonnes of already manufactured insecticide endosulfan, subject to strict monitoring and supervision by officials of the customs and excise department and the environment and forests ministry.
"We are of the view that 1,090.596 tonnes of endosulfan be permitted to be exported... to those countries from whom export orders have been received by the manufacturers in India," said an apex court bench of Chief Justice SH Kapadia, Justice KS Radhakrishnan and Justice Swatanter Kumar.
The court was hearing a plea by the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI), youth wing of the Communist Party of India-Marxist, seeking a complete ban on production, sale, distribution and use of the farm insecticide blamed for causing ailments in humans.
While permitting the export of endosulfan, Chief Justice Kapadia said that “we don’t want that India should suffer. The question is why we should have this material on our soil. Why people of India should suffer (from its harmful effect)”.
The court said this when counsel for the DYFI sought to oppose the export of already manufactured endosulfan.
“We are not forcing them to import. It is for the utilising country to decide on the restrictions it wanted to impose to protect its people,” the court said.
The judges said that their order was only limited to the export of the manufactured quantity of 1090.596 tonnes of endosulfan and said “we make it clear that no manufacturer shall make endosulfan in any form and to that extent our earlier order of May 13 stands”.
The apex court May 13 banned the production and sale of endosulfan in the country.
The May order said that “keeping in mind the various judgments of this court under Article 21 of the constitution and in the precautionary principles, we hereby pass an ad-interim order banning the production and use of endosulfan all over India”.
The court order directed the government to freeze the permits given to the manufacturers of the insecticide.
While permitting the export of already manufactured endosulfan, the court said its packaging would be done under the supervision of officials of the customs and excise department and the environment and forests ministry.
The court said that steps would be taken to ensure that no pollution was caused during the transportation of the packaged endosulfan.
The court said that the government would restore the permits and registration of the endosulfan manufacturers which were frozen in the wake of its May 13 order.
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