{"id":273357,"date":"2025-04-03T19:01:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T19:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/sc-upholds-firecracker-ban-in-delhi-ncr\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T19:01:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T19:01:27","slug":"sc-upholds-firecracker-ban-in-delhi-ncr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/sc-upholds-firecracker-ban-in-delhi-ncr\/","title":{"rendered":"SC upholds firecracker ban in Delhi-NCR"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/118783427.cms?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"SC upholds firecracker ban in Delhi-NCR\" title=\"SC upholds firecracker ban in Delhi-NCR\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-brcount=\"10\">The <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/supreme-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Supreme Court<\/a> on Thursday upheld its ban on the use, manufacture, sale, and storage of firecrackers in the Delhi-NCR region.<\/p>\n<p><!--\/dynamic_link.cms?msid=107107653&subsecid=1715249553&pos=toppotime:1-->A division bench of Justices Abhay S. Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan reaffirmed that restricting the <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/firecracker-ban\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">firecracker ban<\/a> to just a few days around Diwali would be ineffective, as people could purchase and store them in advance. The court cited Delhi&#8217;s severe pollution over the past six months as the basis for its decision.<\/p>\n<p>Given the critical air quality situation, the Bench ruled out any exemptions, including for <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/green-crackers\" rel=\"noopener\">green crackers<\/a>, and upheld the ban on online sales. The judges emphasised that prolonged pollution endangers <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/public-health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">public health<\/a>, particularly for those who cannot afford air purifiers or who work outdoors.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding green crackers, the court noted that, according to the Central Government&#8217;s report, they emit only 30% less pollution than conventional crackers. The Bench stated that unless proven to cause minimal pollution, green crackers would not be granted an exception.<\/p>\n<p>The top court also directed all NCR states to create a machinery for effectively implementing the firecracker ban. <\/p>\n<div style=\"display:none;\" data-ga-impression=\"Events_widget_$pagename#Impression#url\" class=\"liveEventMain_widget custom_ad\">\n<div class=\"topContain\">\n<div class=\"imgBox\"><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"logoTitle\">Live Events<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/live_events_widget.cms?pagename=articlepotime:1--><br \/><!--\/article_liveblog.cms?msid=105115637&pos=botpotime:1--><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/india\/sc-upholds-firecracker-ban-in-delhi-ncr\/articleshow\/119954152.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld its ban on the use, manufacture, sale, and storage of firecrackers in the Delhi-NCR region. A division bench of Justices Abhay S. Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan reaffirmed that restricting the firecracker ban to just a few days around Diwali would be ineffective, as people could purchase and store them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/118783427.cms","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[602],"tags":[123572,230,102741,13103,47624,105293,210108,125233,2058,1617,22483],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273357"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273359,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273357\/revisions\/273359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}