LOVE CARE FOUNDATION Vs. UNION OF INDIA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS petition has been filed on behalf of the Love Care Foundation, registered society, who has approached this Court with a pious object of reducing the growing tendency of smoking among the Indian youths and thereby to create a healthy society free from several diseases.

(2.) INITIALLY , the prayer of the petitioner in the instant writ petition was as under: -

(3.) BUT during course of arguments, learned counsels for the petitioner have fairly conceded that they have restricted their prayer only to the extent of implementing plain packaging rule in cigarettes and other tobacco products by prohibiting use of logos, colours, brand names or prominent information on packaging.