The Supreme Court has refused to entertain a plea seeking implementation of the two child policy in the country to curb "monstrous" population explosion which is "seriously" polluting environment and increasing pressure on natural resources. A bench headed by Justice Kurian Joseph dismissed the petition filed by Anupam Bajpai, a social worker and National Coordinator NGO 'Jeevan Bachao Andolan', and asked her to approach the government authorities with her grievances.

The PIL, filed through lawyer Shiv Kumar Tripathi, had also sought measures to motivate citizens to follow the two child norm and grant them facilities. It also sought under such a policy withdrawal of facilities and concessions from those couples who violate the two child norm. "Every person should have a limit in giving birth only to the maximum of two children failing which the concerned person shall attract disqualification with respect to government facilities and other benefits being provided by the Government to its citizens," the plea said.