New Delhi: In a first of its kind judgement, the Apex Court has ordered eviction of a mobile phone tower, after a 42-year-old man moved court claiming that the electromagnetic radiation from the tower afflicted him with cancer.
Harish Chand Tiwari, working as a domestic help in Gwalior’s Dal Bazar area, had moved the apex court last year, urging the top court to shutdown a BSNL tower illegally installed on a neighbour’s rooftop in 2002, claiming that prolonged exposure to the precarious electro magnetic waves and radiations caused him Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.
Hearing the plea, bench of Justices Ranjan Gogoi and Navin Sinha directed the BSNL to deactivate the tower within seven days.
