A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) was filed in the Supreme Court in the year 2005 on GMOs where DDS was a co-petitioner along with Aruna Rodrigues and Devinder Sharma.
The PIL contested that GMO seeds were a pest-resistant, high producing variety with the inherent drawback of passing on strands of pesticide to human body that could in future blow up into major health problems. The hazards included new allergies, greatly increased resistance to antibiotics, and severe toxicity to humans, animals and micro-organisms, resulting in a serious import on human health, and loss of wildlife and biodiversity.

Seeing merit in the PIL and the evidence provided thereof, the Supreme Court Bench comprising Chief Justice Y.K. Sabharwal, Justice C.K. Thakker and Justice R.V. Raveendran on September 22, 2006 asked the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) not to give approval for genetically modified products until further orders. This striking order has brought to fore the intrinsic perils of GMOs and has triggered off a wider debate on the hazards of genetic engineering and was widely received by the media.

We have filed another fresh application arguing that genetic engineering, if allowed unchecked, would change the molecular structure of the world's food.