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.

Plea to ban installation of towers on residential buildings

The Delhi High Court on Monday issued notices to the Union Government, the Delhi Government and Hutchison Essar Mobile Services Limited on a petition by a man seeking a direction to stop installation of mobile towers on residential buildings and at public places, submitting that the radiation emitted by them was carcinogenic and his son had recently died due to it.

Replies sought by January 14, on health hazards in residential areas.

Phone towers in India emit very strong radiations. With rising concern about their role in certain types of cancer, government has decided to cut radiation limits to a tenth from Sept 1.

The Cellular Operators’ Association of India (COAI) on Wednesday said the exposure limit of radiation due to mobile phone towers in the city is safely below permissible limits as per international

JAIPUR: A division bench of the Rajasthan High Court on Tuesday directed for a spot checking of radiation emission from any two mobile towers conducted with the assistance of instruments provided by BSNL and sought an independent report on Wednesday.

The court directive came after it rejected the radiation emission report prepared by telecom enforcement resources and monitoring (TERM ) cell of the department of telecom, New Delhi.

MUMBAI: In view of the growing number of mobile towers in villages, Maharashtra government will formulate guidelines for rural areas after studying effects of radiation.