The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) had on June 16 demolished huts and razed farms spread over 20 acres in order to clear the banks of Yamuna of unauthorized settlements and farms.
A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar, which refused to pass any direction, asked Delhi Peasants Multipurpose Society to get the crops tested in the laboratory in order to check the level of contamination in the produce.
The farmers society has sought modification of January 13 order of the Tribunal by which it had prohibited cultivation of edible crop on the floodplains of Yamuna here, saying the vegetables grown there were "highly contaminated" and their consumption could lead to cancer.
It also seeks permission to allow the members of the society to continue farming activities in Yamuna as "it is source of livelihood for about 10,000 families".
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It has also averred that there was no specific report submitted before the Tribunal that any particular pollutant was found in the samples collected from crops cultivated by the members of the society.
"The applicant is compelled to approach this Tribunal on account of the acts committed by the DDA purportedly under the orders of this Tribunal.
"DDA, while taking the shelter of directions, came to certain sites of the applicant society and with a team of officials ruined the entire crops," the society said.