The Supreme Court has refused to grant more time to the Centre for implementing the law to regulate the use of plastic for packaging gutka and other tobacco products and asked it to notify that within two days.
“We are not going to give you more time. No question of giving more time. You should notify the law within two days available to you (government). You would violate the court’s order at your peril,” a Bench headed by Mr Justice G.S. Singhvi said, directing the Government to meet the deadline set by it in December.
The court referred to its December 2010 order, in which it had directed the Centre to come out with the law within eight weeks which expires on February 4.
Pleading for more time, a junior Central government counsel contended that the rules have already been framed in September 2009 and only a formal notification is required to implement the law.