Import data compiled by Greenpeace from Government of India statistics for 1998-1999 indicates that more than 100,887 tonnes, including hazardous and potentially hazardous wastes have entered India illegally, some in violation of a 1997 Indian Supreme Court order banning the imports of hazardous wastes into India. The import data was released even as a high power committee of the Supreme Court was gearing up to submit a stock-taking report on the status of indigenously generated and imported hazardous wastes in the country.