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The plea contends that a population control law should be introduced to secure fundamental rights of the citizens in light of the limited resources available at disposal. It seeks directions to the law commission to explore the possibilities of population control law and policies.
A Supreme Court bench of Justices Abdul Nazeer and JK Maheshwari on Monday issued notice in a plea seeking direction to the Central Government to ascertain the feasibility of enacting a stringent population control law.
The court while issuing notice in the plea sought centre’s response and tagged it with a similar petition by Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay.
The present plea filed by Devkinandan Thakur sought direction to bring population control law to secure fundamental rights, mainly rule of law, right to air, right to water, right to food, right to health, right to sleep, right to shelter, right to livelihood, right to justice and right to education.
It further submitted that 125 crore Indians have AADHAAR Card while around 20% i.e. 25 crore citizens are without AADHAAR, and around 5 crore Bangladeshi and Rohingya infiltrators, illegally reside in India. From this, the plea submitted, it is evident that the total population of India is more than 150 crore and India has marched ahead of China.
“If we calculate natural resources, then we have around 2% of agricultural land and merely 4% of the world land. However, the population is 20%. If we compare with America then our area is one-third of America and the rate of population growth is eight times of America. In America, 10,000 children are born every day and in India 86,000 children per day," the plea added.
The plea has further sought direction for the Law Commission of India to examine the population control laws and population control policies of the developed countries and suggest population control steps to secure the fundamental rights of citizens.
Case title: Devkinandan Thakurji Vs Union of India
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