New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to examine a public interest litigation (PIL) challenging the Union government’s decision to allow unrestricted imports of yellow peas.

Issuing notice, a bench of Justices Surya Kant, Ujjal Bhuyan, and N.K. Singh sought responses from the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) and the Union Ministries of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, Commerce and Industry, and Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution in the matter.

The PIL filed by Kisan Mahapanchayat sought a direction to the Centre to impose restrictions on the import of yellow peas to ensure that their domestic selling price remains at or above the Minimum Support Price (MSP).

Alternatively, the petition sought a prohibition on the import of yellow peas, as recommended by t

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