When Umesh Narain Sharma’s public interest litigation (PIL) was being heard at the Supreme Court, he was battling for his life, recalls his advocate Aishwarya Bhati.
An advocate with the Allahabad High Court, Sharma had been a tobacco consumer for several decades. He was diagnosed with tongue cancer in 2010. And just weeks ago, he had to undergo his second surgery after the cancer relapsed.
Sharma’s PIL is against the Centre’s delay in implementing plain packaging norms for tobacco products to make them less attractive to young people. The effort is to stop tobacco products from being “cool” for the next generation so they are protected from getting addicted, says Bhati, who had taken with her to Court a foreign plain pack tobacco product and the locally packed ones to illustrate the difference. The Centre now has to give its response to the Court. Read More>
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