The Supreme Court has refused to change the order to ban firecrackers throughout the year in Delhi-NCR. It was said by the fireworks companies that they are not asking to lift the ban on the months around Diwali, but the judges said that if the rest of the time the firecrackers were allowed to be sold, then people will deposit their stock.
It was also said by cracker companies that they are constantly working to improve quality. Green crackers pollution up to 30 percent less than old crackers, but the bench of Justice Abhay S Oka and Ujjwal Bhuiyan was not satisfied with this argument. He said that when companies do more research. When they succeed in reaching the minimum level of firecrackers, then file an application.
Strange arguments of the petitioner
On Thursday, April 3, the Supreme Court also heard a person named Mukesh Jain. The judges were surprised by the arguments of this petitioner, who described himself as a knowledgeable of pollution cases from IIT. Jain claimed that firecrackers contribute to pure the air. He also compared the firecrackers to the incense sticks burnt in the house. On this, the judges asked if they did not understand the difference between incense and crackers? Can they burn firecrackers at home too?
The petitioners did not stop. He accused MC Mehta, who filed a petition on pollution in the 1980s, the institutions researching the environment and the lawyers who were supporting the court in the case were also accused of taking donations from anti -India foreign institutions. He said that foreign institutions who help the Naxalites, are also giving crores of crores to these people.
Eventually the application of Mukesh Jain was rejected by the bench. Justice Oka said that although the petitioner can be fined for making such waste allegations, but he has done such an act for the first time, so we are not imposing a fine.