The Supreme Court has upheld a ban on commercial and tourism-related activities in the habitat of endangered Jarawa tribe of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
The order follows reports of video footage featuring the aboriginals dancing for food in front of foreign tourists and officials on "human safaris".
A Bench of Justices G S Singhvi and S J Mukhopadhyaya upheld a five-year-old "unconditional" ban imposed under the Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Protection of Aboriginal Tribes) Regulations, 1956. The prohibition entails that neither the administration nor a private individual should enter or carry out any kind of commercial or tourism-related activities up to five km radius around the Jarawa tribal reserve. The court said that there will be no dilution of the ban until the law is amended or rescinded. "It shall be the duty of the Principal Secretary (Tribal Welfare) and other officers of the Administration of Andaman and Nicobar to ensure total
Click here to see the original article>A Bench of Justices G S Singhvi and S J Mukhopadhyaya upheld a five-year-old "unconditional" ban imposed under the Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Protection of Aboriginal Tribes) Regulations, 1956. The prohibition entails that neither the administration nor a private individual should enter or carry out any kind of commercial or tourism-related activities up to five km radius around the Jarawa tribal reserve. The court said that there will be no dilution of the ban until the law is amended or rescinded. "It shall be the duty of the Principal Secretary (Tribal Welfare) and other officers of the Administration of Andaman and Nicobar to ensure total