Tag: Population Control

NEW DELHI : The Supreme Court on Friday declined to entertain a plea seeking guidelines to control population explosion in the country, saying it will not touch the issue, as it is the government’s job. A bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Abhay S. Oka queried the petitioner advocate Ashwini Upadhyay, if now the court will decide this? It told him that there has to be some reasonableness. Upadhyay argued that while India only had 2 per cent of the world’s land, it had 20 per cent of its population....