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The National Green Tribunal on 27 February 2018 appointed an expert committee to study the harmful effects of antimony on environment after a plea sought a ban on the manufacture, use and import of solar panels containing the heavy metal. A bench of Justices Jawad Rahim and R S Rathore constituted a three-member committee comprising Vinay A Juvekar from IIT Bombay, and a scientist each from the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE). "The committee shall state in its report whether antimony was harmful and what are its side effects. Is there any possibility of leaching of the heavy metal and up to what extent any other issue which would be necessary in analysis of ill effects of antimony and the remedial measures thereof," the bench said.