July 15, 2016 7:53 PM

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Plastic consumed by cattle: SC asks Centre to setup committee

The Supreme Court today directed the Centre to constitute a committee for implementing environment protection laws and consider prohibiting the use, sale and disposal of plastic bags which are consumed by stray cattle making them suffer and die a painful death.<br/><br/>A bench of Justices V Gopala Gowda and Adarsh Kumar Goel said the issue was not adversarial litigation and asked the petitioner and other parties to give suggestions to the committee to be constituted by the Centre.<br/><br/>It also directed that the Committee should consider the suggestions of states, union territories, Animal Welfare Board of India and prayers in PIL filed by a NGO which working for Animals and Nature for ensuring implementation of the rules framed under the Environment (Protection) Act.

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