India, May 13 -- The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court on Monday took a stern view of the sale, purchase and use of Chinese manjha - nylon and lead-coated kite strings - and sought to know from the Uttar Pradesh Government what concrete plan it had devised to stop its use. The State Government informed the court that it was in the process of framing a law to prohibit such manjha and that a six-member committee had already been constituted for the purpose.

Taking note of the submission, a bench of Justices Rajan Roy and Manjive Shukla directed the secretaries, or officers above the rank of secretary, of the Home and Environment departments to remain present through video conferencing on the next date of hearing on July 13. The ord...