SC Issues Notice to Centre on Marble Import Policy.

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has issued notices to the Centre and the Director General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) on a petition challenging the government's recent marble import policy on the ground that it was discriminatory towards the granite and stone industry.

A bench of Justices D K Jain and A K Ganguly issued notices on a petition filed by the All India Granite and Stone Association, which alleged that the August 4 notification would benefit a "few large marble producers having their units in particular pockets of the country".

"There is sufficient indication of the fact that the DGFT prescribed such criteria with a mala fide intention to create monopoly of the few select marble processing units in this sector," the petitioner said.

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