CPM youth wing to move SC

The Democratic Youth Federation (DYF), a youth-wing of CPI(M), has moved the Supreme Court seeking a ban on sale and production of pesticide endosulfan.

The Democratic Youth Federation (DYF), a youth-wing of CPI(M), has moved the Supreme Court seeking a ban on sale and production of pesticide endosulfan. The organisation submitted that a large section of people were directly affected by the use of endosulfan that is already banned in 81 countries.

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DYF claimed several studies had documented that endosulfan could also affect human development and it gave example of serious health hazards caused in Kasargod district in Kerala.

The petition said: “Researchers studying children from an isolated village in Kerala have linked endosulfan to delays in sexual maturity among boys.”