To save paper apex court to accept pleas on A4 sheets

New Delhi : The Supreme Court, to reduce the wastage of paper through uniformity in its usage in day-to-day proceedings, has said it will accept petitions and affidavits only on A4 size sheets printed on both sides beginning from April 1.

On January 14, Chief Justice SA Bobde told the registry of the ap­ex court to begin using A4 size sheets printed on both sides for all communications internally at all levels.

A new circular dated March 5 has been published on the apex court website stating that A4 size paper will be accepted on the judicial side from April 1, with required specifications.

The current practice involves usage of legal size paper, which is bigger than A4 size sheets, and it is used in most of the courts in the country.

Many environmental activists have raised concerns on the exi­s­ting norms on the usage of paper, which includes one side printing where wide margins led to large scale wastage of paper in courts.