A writ petition has been filed with the High Court docket looking out out for its directive to extinguish the Ministry of Commerce’s decision to export 3,000 tonnes of hilsa fish to India.
Supreme Court docket lawyer Indicate Md Mahmudul Hasan filed the writ petition with the courtroom’s connected soar this day (25 September).
“Earlier, I despatched a real scrutinize to the alive to occasions to extinguish the executive’s decision to export hilsa. As no action was once taken in response, this writ petition was once filed this day,” the lawyer urged the media.
Secretary of the Ministry of Commerce, secretary of the Fisheries and Farm animals Ministry, secretary of the Remote places Affairs Ministry, chairman of the National Board of Earnings, and the chief controller of imports and exports predicament of enterprise had been made respondents within the writ.
The petition also seeks a everlasting ban on the hilsa export from the Padma, Meghna, and other rivers in Bangladesh.
The petition acknowledged that hilsa is expose in varied rivers in India. Truly, there is never this form of thing as a need for India to import hilsa from Bangladesh.
In step with the Bangladesh Fisheries Review Institute, simplest 10% of the hilsa caught in Bangladesh is expose within the Padma River. The quantity of hilsa expose within the Padma River is insufficient to meet the requires of the individuals of Bangladesh.
Diversified media shops in West Bengal, India, hold revealed statements by leaders of the Indian Fish Importers Association, acknowledging that they import hilsa from the Padma River in Bangladesh.
The petition extra acknowledged that Indian brokers and exporters in Bangladesh acquire fish from the Padma River all yr long, freeze them, and then export or smuggle them to India. This finally ends up in hilsa shortage in Bangladesh markets and causes the ticket of the fish to surge extravagantly excessive.
As per Bangladesh’s Export Policy 2021-24, Hilsa is now not any longer a freely exportable commodity. If this fish is to be exported, determined prerequisites would possibly presumably furthermore aloof be met, reads the petition.
The commerce ministry can no longer independently approve the export of hilsa with out the reveal approval of the Fisheries and Farm animals Ministry, it added.
