{"id":49262,"date":"2017-07-31T08:12:41","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T02:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=49262"},"modified":"2017-07-31T08:12:41","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T02:42:41","slug":"will-take-policy-decision-gm-mustard-crop-centre-tells-sc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/will-take-policy-decision-gm-mustard-crop-centre-tells-sc","title":{"rendered":"Will take policy decision on GM mustard crop, Centre tells SC"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_44317\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44317\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/law.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"44317\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/sc-seeks-report-jk-police-youths-killing\/law-10\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/law.jpg?fit=260%2C193&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"260,193\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"law\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/law.jpg?fit=260%2C193&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/law.jpg?fit=260%2C193&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-44317 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/law.jpg?resize=260%2C193&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Will take policy decision on GM mustard crop, Centre tells SC\" width=\"260\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/law.jpg?w=260&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/law.jpg?resize=135%2C100&amp;ssl=1 135w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44317\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Will take policy decision on GM mustard crop, Centre tells SC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Centre today told the Supreme Court that it will take a decision in a month-and-a-half on whether to allow the commercial roll out of Genetically Modified (GM) mustard crop in the country.<\/p>\n<p>A bench comprising Chief Justice J S Khehar and Justice D Y Chandrachud told Additional Solicitor General P S Narasimha that if the government takes a decision in favour of GM mustard crop, then the court would like to hear the petition challenging the commercial release.<\/p>\n<p>The bench also said that as the mustard sowing season begins in the month of October, any decision favouring the roll out will come into effect after the court examines it and fixed the matter for hearing in the second week of September.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier the bench had granted time to the Centre to apprise it as to by when it will take a &#8220;well-informed and well-intentioned&#8221; policy decision on the roll out.<\/p>\n<p>The apex court had on October 17 last year extended the stay on the commercial release of GM mustard crop until further orders.<\/p>\n<p>The court had restrained the commercial release of the crop for ten days on October 7, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The court had asked the Centre to seek public opinion on such seeds before releasing it for cultivation purpose, even as government approval is awaited.<\/p>\n<p>Mustard is one of India&#8217;s most important winter crops which is sown between mid-October and late November.<\/p>\n<p>Advocate Prashant Bhushan, appearing for petitioner Aruna Rodrigues, alleged that the government was sowing the seeds in various fields and said the bio-safety dossier has to be put on the website, which has not been done yet.<\/p>\n<p>Alleging that field trials were being carried out without doing relevant tests, he had sought a 10-year moratorium on them. Bhushan said a Technical Expert Committee (TEC) report has pointed out that the entire regulatory system was in shambles and a 10-year moratorium should be given.<\/p>\n<p>Rodrigues had filed the plea seeking a stay on the commercial release of Genetically Modified (GM) Mustard crop and prohibition of its open field trials.<\/p>\n<p>He had also urged the court to prohibit open field trials and commercial release of Herbicide Tolerant (HT) crops including HT Mustard DMH 11 and its parent lines\/variants as recommended by the Technical Expert Committee (TEC) report.<\/p>\n<p>( Source &#8211; PTI )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre today told the Supreme Court that it will take a decision in a month-and-a-half on whether to allow the commercial roll out of Genetically Modified (GM) mustard crop in the country. 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