The Delhi high court on Friday directed a committee of experts to frame guidelines to prevent rampant use of banned pesticides in vegetables and fruits and submit its report to it.

The CPI (Maoist) have launched an “intense tactical counter offensive campaign” (TCOC) and Naxal hotbeds of Gadchiroli, Dantewada, Abhujmad and other Naxal dominated zones — particularly border districts of Chattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa and Maharashtra — are high on the target of the banned outfit.