Farmer groups demand end to GM mustard trials; write to PM Narendra Modi

Activists claims Centre misleading SC on GM mustard

A day before the next hearing at the Supreme Court on GM mustard, a group of scientists and activists alleged the government had given “untrue” and “incorrect” information in its affidavit filed in the apex court recently.

Also, some anti-GM farmers’ associations wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to stop all approvals and trials of GM mustard.

“It is with alarming alacrity that the government of India has violated its own undertaking given to the Supreme Court in hearings related to this matter and also acted in contempt of the court’s orders when it got the GM mustard planted in