A two Judge bench of the Indian Supreme Court of India, on 20th July,
2010, quashed the criminal defamation case against 11 activists
initiated by the Crop Care Federation (formerly Pesticides Associations
of India, a consortium of pesticide manufacturing companies). The
chemical consortium had filed the case against the activists in the
Magistrate's Court of Warangal for publishing a report titled "The
Killing Fields of Warangal" in 2002.