SC notice to Centre on plea on radiation from mobile towers

Supreme Court has sought the Centre's response on a plea seeking protection of citizens from deleterious effects of radiation emanating from cell phones and mobile towers. A bench of Chief Justice TS Thakur and Justice AM Khanwilkar issued notices to Department of Telecommunications (DoT), NOIDA and Indus Towers Ltd, the firm which has installed some mobile towers in Noida, and tagged the PIL for hearing with another similar pending



plea. 

Advocate P rashant Bhushan, appearing for Noida resident Naresh Chand Gupta who has filed the PIL, referred to the deleterious effects of radiation, emanating from mobile towers and cell phones. The plea has sought a direction to DoT to drastically reduce the exposure limit from cell towers and cell phones keeping in line with stricter norms followed in other countries and recommendations of scientific studies.