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Legal notice to Pepsi, Coke to stop sales or face $10 bn suit
New Delhi, Sept 12: Two days before the first meeting of Joint Parliamentary Committee probing pesticides-colas controversy, a legal notice was today served to Pepsi and Coca Cola asking them to immediately stop their sales in India or else a suit will be filed demanding 10 billion dollars from them on grounds of causing health hazards.
New Delhi, Sept 12: Two days before the first meeting
of Joint Parliamentary Committee probing pesticides-colas
controversy, a legal notice was today served to Pepsi and Coca
Cola asking them to immediately stop their sales in India or
else a suit will be filed demanding 10 billion dollars from
them on grounds of causing health hazards.
The notice was served to Coca Cola at its Atlanta Office
and to Pepsico at New York on behalf of Lok Sabha MP and a
member of the JPC, Avtar Singh Bhadhana, his Solicitor Surat
Singh said here.
Bhadhana claimed support of at least 12 more MPs and said
the notice states that these companies should stay away from
distributing or selling their cold drinks in India and recall
any products which are already in the market by September 15
till the JPC gives a clean chit on the safety standards of
their soft drinks.
As an alternative, he reserved the right to slap a class
action suit demanding 10 billion dollars or around Rs 50,000
crores as a compensation payable to the Indian population for
causing serious health hazards in India, Singh said.
Bhadhana said if the two companies failed to stop their
sales by September 15, he would raise the issue before the JPC
in its first meeting, the next day.
However, if the JPC concludes that the drinks satisfy international safety standards, he would not have any claim against the company.
Bhadhana and 12 more MPs have also represented to the President A P J Abdul Kalam that sale of these soft drinks should be banned with immediate effect.
Bureau Report
However, if the JPC concludes that the drinks satisfy international safety standards, he would not have any claim against the company.
Bhadhana and 12 more MPs have also represented to the President A P J Abdul Kalam that sale of these soft drinks should be banned with immediate effect.
Bureau Report