New Delhi, Aug. 3 -- The Supreme Court has tightened its oversight of the protection of India's wetlands, directing the Centre, states and Union territories to physically verify and demarcate all wetlands identified in the Space Applications Centre (SAC) Atlas within two months, while warning that secretaries and other senior officials will be summoned to court if the exercise remains confined to paperwork. A bench of justices Aravind Kumar and Vipul M Pancholi made it clear that the statutory exercise of "ground-truthing" and boundary demarcation under the Wetlands (Conservation and Management) Rules, 2017, cannot be completed merely on paper and must involve physical identification of the wetlands on the ground. "Ground truthing and demar...