Shimla, Nov. 27 -- The Himachal Pradesh High Court, on Thursday, has directed the state government and the Himachal Pradesh Horticultural Produce Marketing and Processing Corporation (HPMC) to submit a detailed action-taken report outlining a concrete plan for the scientific disposal of apple waste at all notified auction and processing sites along the Parwanoo-Shimla-Kalka National Highway.

The order was passed by a Division Bench of Chief Justice Gurmeet Singh Sandhawalia and Justice Jiya Lal Bhardwaj on November 25 during the resumed hearing of a suo motu Public Interest Litigation concerning the long-pending problem of rotten apples, leaking liquid waste, and accumulated pomace around HPMC's fruit processing and auction facilities. ...