Delhi AQI: With Delhi’s air high quality coming into the ‘extreme’ zone with the Air High quality Index of 363, the Supreme Court docket on Wednesday rapped the got here down closely on the Punjab, Haryana and the Union authorities for not taking the air air pollution and stubble burning situation significantly. The apex courtroom expressed its displeasure over ‘cherry choosing of FIR registration’ and imposition of nominal fines.
A thick layer of smog enveloped the nationwide capital Wednesday morning as its air high quality remained within the ‘very poor’ class on Wednesday. Throughout a listening to on the problem, the highest courtroom took sturdy exception to Punjab and Haryana governments not taking any motion in opposition to individuals for stubble burning.
The apex courtroom remarked that if these governments are actually taken with implementing the legislation, there would have been no less than one prosecution. The Supreme Court docket informed the Chief Secretary of Punjab that round 1,080 FIRs have been registered in opposition to the violators, however the authorities collected nominal fines from solely 473 individuals. “You might be sparing 600 or extra individuals. We are going to inform you very frankly that you’re giving a sign to violators that nothing might be completed in opposition to them. This has been for the previous three years,” mentioned the SC.
Haryana’s Chief Secretary knowledgeable the Supreme Court docket that 400 crop-burning incidents have been reported and the state has registered 32 FIRs. The highest courtroom mentioned that Haryana is taking compensation from few and registering FIR in opposition to only a few.
The Supreme Court docket grilled the governments over non-compliance and their failure to implement anti-pollution measures. A bench of Justice Abhay S Oka, Justice A Amanullah, and Justice AG Masih, termed the efforts by the state governments to stamp out farm fires a ‘mere eyewash’. The Supreme Court docket additionally pulled up the Centre for making the atmosphere safety legislation ‘toothless”, and mentioned the availability below the CAQM Act which offers with penalty for stubble burning was not being carried out.
On October 16, the highest courtroom had pulled up the Punjab and Haryana governments over the non-prosecution of violators discovered responsible of stubble burning whereas summoning the state chief secretaries to look earlier than it on October 23 for an evidence.
