NE LEGAL BUREAU
NEW DELHI, MAY 31
Actress-environmentalist Juhi Chawla Monday approached the Delhi High Court against the setting up of 5G wireless networks in the country, raising issues related to the radiation impact on citizens, animals, flora and fauna.
Justice C Hari Shankar, before whom the matter came up for hearing, transferred the suit to another bench for hearing on June 2.
Chawla said if the telecommunications industry’s plans for 5G come to fruition, no person, no animal, no bird, no insect and no plant on Earth will be able to avoid exposure, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, to levels of RF radiation that are 10x to 100x times greater than what exists today.
Juhi Chawla's poster reads, "5G is a killer air pollutant".
It is not an air pollutant.
The poster also claims that its radiation is unsafe and has never been tested.
Also false. The international radiation watchdog has deemed it safe. https://t.co/tjROJtPvlu https://t.co/MLcyXyQupC pic.twitter.com/2pwXCNRT3t
— Siddharth Singh (@siddharth3) May 31, 2021
These 5G plans threaten to provoke serious, irreversible effects on humans and permanent damage to all of the Earth’s ecosystems, she said.
The suit, filed through advocate Deepak Khosla, sought a direction to the authorities to certify to the public at large, that 5G technology is safe to humankind, man, woman, adult, child, infant, animals and every type of living organism, flora and fauna.
