In the process, the authority has indicted itself in no uncertain terms—an unusual occurrence in officialdom—by listing a series of procedural lapses by the registrar, some of them major, in approving the registration despite omissions and fudging in the application submitted by PepsiCo. Perhaps this is the real cause for celebration, if it means the process of registrations at the statutory body, the Protection of Plant Varieties & Farmers' Rights (ppv&fr) Authority, will be more streamlined hereafter.
More important in its revocation judgment is the authority’s affirmation of the overarching spirit of the law, which says the farmer’s interests are supreme. It has accepted a major contention of the revocation petition filed by farm activist Kavita Kuruganti, that the grant of registration was not in the public interest. In other words, something that violates the rights of farmers as enshrined in India’s unique plant protection law is not in the public interest.
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