The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued notices to the Union Ministry for Health and Family Welfare and the Department of Telecommunication on a pubic interest litigation seeking a direction to remove mobile phone towers from residential premises and public places and ban their installation at these sites in future.

A Division Bench of the Court comprising Justice A.K. Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw asked the Ministry and the Department to file replies to the petition by August 9, the next date of hearing.