"No rollout till certified safe:" Juhi Chawla moves Delhi High Court against untested implementation of 5G technology

Bollywood actor Juhi Chawla has moved the Delhi HIgh Court raising concerns with respect to the "untested" implementation of 5G technology in the country.

. In her suit filed before the High Court, Chawla along with Veeresh Malik and Teena Vachani, argued that until and unless 5G technology is "certified safe", its roll out should not be permitted.

. " The essence of the suit – which addresses the dire and palpable risks to the public at large which an indiscriminate and admittedly-untested rollout of 5G cellular telecommunications technology entails - is that the State, on the principle that ‘prevention’ is better than ‘cure’, has an ongoing 24x7x365 duty to ensure the safety and health of its citizens, both the living as well as those yet to be born, which duty would extend to ensuring that products of a hazardous nature – or even a potentially hazardous nature - are not permitted to come into the economic mainstream till they are certified safe by the State, both for existing as well as future generations," the plaint stated.

. No one party/individual can be allowed to profit at the expense of the health, safety and life of others, Chawla and the other plaintiffs submitted.

. The Court was also informed that in April 2019, Brussels (Belgium) became the first major city in the world to actually halt any further steps in the 5G rollout on account of health hazards.

. It was also claimed that the insurance companies operating in USA, UK, Canada, etc have refused, since 2001, to cover the risk of cellular telecommunications providers against lawsuits relating even to injury caused by radiation, much less death.

. The petitioners thus argued that now the onus is firmly cast on the authorities to certify to the public at large that that "there is no fire" i.e. " there is no danger whatsoever by 5G cellular telecommunications technology to the life of any living organism ".

. The suit was listed for hearing before Justice C Hari Shankar who directed that the same be placed before another bench on June 2.

. Central government, Indian Council for Medical Research, Central Pollution Control Board, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (Delhi), Indian Institute of Technology ( Kharagpur, Chennai), World Health Organisation and several others have been arrayed for defendants.

. The suit was filed through advocate Deepak Khosla.

"No rollout till certified safe:" Juhi Chawla moves Delhi High Court against untested implementation of 5G technology

Aditi

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