India Top Court Directs Tobacco Firms to Follow New Health Warning Rules
May 04 2016 - 4:03AM
Dow Jones News
By Preetika Rana
NEW DELHI--India's Supreme Court Wednesday directed tobacco
companies to comply with new rules requiring larger and more
graphic health warnings on cigarette packs.
The direction comes a month after Indian cigarette-makers halted
production over government rules that require pictorial health
warnings to cover 85% of the front as well as back of a pack.
Previously, only 40% of the front needed to be covered.
Tobacco companies "should not violate the regulation in any
manner," Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghost said.
The tobacco industry had objected to the stricter rules, which
came into force last month, and filed more than two dozen cases in
courts challenging their legality.
To avoid separate and conflicting judgements, the country's top
court Wednesday also ordered the transfer of all the lawsuits to
the Karnataka High Court, where most of the cases are being
heard.
Write to Preetika Rana at preetika.rana@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
May 04, 2016 03:48 ET (07:48 GMT)
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