{"id":383,"date":"2018-01-21T17:51:06","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T17:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/?p=383"},"modified":"2018-01-21T17:51:06","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T17:51:06","slug":"why-not-ban-chewing-tobacco-delhi-high-court-asks-authorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/why-not-ban-chewing-tobacco-delhi-high-court-asks-authorities\/","title":{"rendered":"Why not ban chewing tobacco, Delhi High Court asks authorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEW DELHI<\/strong>: Why should chewing of tobacco not be banned as such a step would end the problem posed by &#8216;<strong>gutka<\/strong>&#8216; and &#8216;<strong>pan masala<\/strong>&#8216;, the Delhi High Court asked today.<\/p>\n<p>The court asked the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (<strong>FSSAI<\/strong>) whether such a step has been taken by the Centre or any of the state governments.<\/p>\n<p>While &#8216;gutka&#8217; is a mild stimulant made of areca nut, tobacco and other intoxicants, &#8216;pan masala&#8217; is a mixture of betel leaf with lime, areca nut and other ite ..<\/p>\n<p>The court, on the other hand, observed that the notification only appeared to ban mixing of chewing tobacco with any eatable item or &#8216;pan masala&#8217; and banned &#8216;gutka&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The FSSAI did not agree with the observation and said that as chewing tobacco is an &#8220;unsafe food&#8221;, its sale would attract penal provisions.<\/p>\n<p>The court was hearing an application moved by a tobacco manufacturing company seeking to amend its main petition challenging the notification banning &#8216;gutka&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The company wanted to amend its main plea to also challenge the 2017 notification banning &#8216;gutka&#8217; as the Delhi government comes out with such orders every year.<\/p>\n<p>The court issued notice to the Delhi government and FSSAI seeking their replies to the plea before the next date of hearing in the main petition on May 11.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/why-not-ban-chewing-tobacco-delhi-high-court-asks-authorities\/\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"5\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground:  !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Why should chewing of tobacco not be banned as such a step would end the problem posed by &#8216;gutka&#8216; and &#8216;pan masala&#8216;, the Delhi High Court asked today. The court asked the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) whether such a step has been taken by the Centre or any of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[807,6,26,808],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chewing-tobacco","tag-delhi-high-court","tag-high-court","tag-not-ban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1635,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions\/1635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}