The informant in this case is aggrieved by the Rules and Regulations made in respect of registration of insecticides for importing into India. To regulate the import, manufacture, sale, transport, distribution and use of pesticides and insecticides, the legislature framed The Insecticides Act, 1968 (hereinafter called the Act). Insecticides are basically toxin substances capable of causing health hazards. The import of insecticides is regulated under the Act, and the Regulations framed under the Act by Central Insecticides Board (CIB). The Act is administered by the Ministry of Agriculture, Department of Agriculture & Cooperation, who is Opposite Party No. 1 in this case. The Ministry is advised by CIB on technical matters arising out of administration of the Act. Director General, Health Services is an ex-officio Chairman of CIB (as per section-4 of the Act). The Act provides for a Registration Committee (RC), which is a technical executive body and has responsibility to register insecticides after scrutinizing their formulae and verifying claims of the importers or manufacturers in regard to the efficacy and safety to human beings and animals. Elaborate rules have been made under the Act for field trials of the insecticides.
