STATE TIMES NEWS
SRINAGAR: A Division Bench of State High Court Comprising Chief Justice N Paul Vasanthakumar and Justice Ali Mohammad Magrey while hearing a PIL seeking ban on sale of tobacco products not adhering to pictorial warnings Thursday allowed the writ petition with a direction to the respondents to ensure implementation of the Cigarettes and other Tobacco products (Packaging and Labelling), Amendment Rules, 2014 and ban the sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products not having 85% specified health warning and such of those tobacco products which are not satisfying the rule, have to be seized and destroyed.
It is made clear that such of those tobacco products which have been manufactured prior to the implementation of the said Rule, namely, 01.04.2016 be allowed to be sold without any disturbance till the stocks possessed by the sellers are sold out.
As per a notification issued earlier a specified health warning shall cover at least 85% of the principal area on each package, of which 60% shall cover pictorial health warning and 25% shall cover textual health warning and shall be positioned on the top edge of the package.
