NGO ’Gene Campaign’ through counsel Sanjay Parikh said the worst fears of catastropic effects on the traditional crops had slowly emerged in the absence of strict regulation of GM seed trials, both open field and restricted, as the regulatory body, the Genetic Engineering Advisory Committee (GEAC), had failed to come out with rules and regulations. A Bench of Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justices J M Panchal and A K Ganguly issued notice to the ministries of environment, agriculture and department of biotechnology apart from Mahyco on the application filed by the NGO accusing the MNC of conducting illegal open field trials of Bt rice.