JAIPUR: In a judgment that could have nationwide impact, the Rajasthan high court on Tuesday ordered the relocation of mobile towers from educational institutions, hospitals and playgrounds in the state within two months, citing harmful electromagnetic radiation.
The court further ruled that the towers should be shifted at least 500m from jails and 100m from monuments.
“We have received a large number of communications from the state and across the country that mobile tower radiations are harmful and even the inter-ministerial committee of the central government in its meeting in May this year has held so,” a division bench of chief justice Arun Mishra and Justice N K Jain observed in its 200-page judgment.
Says electromagnetic waves can “cook human tissues just like a microwave oven” on prolonged exposure.