Gujarat HC issues notice to Centre over tobacco notification

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The petitioner Nitin Garg, owner of city-based Vishnu Tobacco Products, says the notification is “irrational and arbitrary and issued without considering the rights and interests of the tobacco industry.”

If 85 per cent space is used for pictorial warning, no space will be left for brand name and logo and “all the products will look the same, giving rise to spurious products”, the petition says.

Also, for want of space, it would be impossible to follow the Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules of 2011 under which information about contents, etc., has to be displayed. Before issuing the notification, there was no “impact assessment” it adds, demanding quashing of the notification.