Islamabad, July 3 (PTI): Pakistan plans to take legal action against India over a dispute on patenting of Super Basmati rice, a media report here said today.

Pakistan accuses India of "deceiving" it by patenting the variety of Basmati rice on the basis of Geographical Indicator (GI) and intends to file a case in the Supreme Court of India.

"Trading Corporation of Pakistan & Rice Export Association of Pakistan will now represent the petitioners in India," The Observer newspaper said quoting officials.

Leaders of the rice exporters associations of both the countries would meet in New Delhi on July 18 to discuss the prospects of joint registration and a joint export strategy of it.

"I have been invited by Vijay Setia, president of India Rice Exporters Association, for talks in New Delhi on July 18," Rahim Janoo a prominent rice exporter and former Chairman of the Rice Exporters Association of Pakistan, (REAP) told PTI.

Fazal Abbas Mekan, Trade Minister at the Pakistan's High Commission in New Delhi has been authorized on their behalf to proceed with the case, the newspaper said.

"It is the total failure of Pakistan's trade and economic managers that New Delhi managed to deceive Islamabad by getting Super Basmati registered based on geographically Indication (GI)," the unnamed official told the newspaper.

"Although it is crystal clear that if kept in view Geographical Indication, the Super Basmati rice is the product of Pakistan," it said.