New Delhi:
The Supreme Court docket has demanded Delhi Police take “instant motion” to cease the sale and bursting of firecrackers within the nationwide capital – an annual exercise in open defiance of an present ban – even days after Diwali, observing sharply that “no faith encourages air pollution”.
“No faith encourages any exercise which creates air pollution. If firecrackers are burst on this trend… it additionally impacts basic proper to well being of the residents,” a bench of Justice Abhay S Oka and Justice Agustine George Masih, listening to a case on Delhi’s yearly air high quality disaster, mentioned.
The courtroom additionally demanded the Delhi authorities take a choice on a everlasting ban on firecrackers – the chemical residue of which blankets town in cloud of poisonous smog that smothers residents and severely endangers their well being – within the metropolis by November 25.
As we speak’s listening to follows final week’s reprimand for the Delhi authorities and police, every of which was issued a discover to clarify to the courtroom why that they had did not implement and implement the ban on firecrackers, which is introduced earlier than Diwali yearly and has little or no impact.
In response, in the present day the Delhi Police chief filed an affidavit explaining steps taken.