Even because the Supreme Courtroom stated on Monday that emergency measures below Stage 4 of the Graded Response Motion Plan (GRAP) to take care of air air pollution in Delhi will proceed in the intervening time, Delhi Police officers stated they’re sensitising folks in opposition to the usage of firecrackers within the ongoing winter marriage ceremony season.
“We’re sensitising the general public and briefing house owners of marriage venues and banquet halls to keep away from firecrackers,” Ankit Singh, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Dwarka, stated. Different police officers stated they’ve but to obtain any formal complaints about the usage of firecrackers throughout weddings within the nationwide capital.
Delhi’s air high quality index (AQI) has fluctuated between the ‘very poor’ and ‘extreme’ classes ever for the reason that GRAP-IV was enforced on November 18. And regardless of the continued ban on firecrackers within the nationwide capital, fireworks have lit up skies this marriage ceremony season.
“The extensively publicised ban on the storage, manufacturing, and sale of firecrackers…is a complete failure. The bursting of firecrackers might be heard by an odd individual so the enforcement companies should concentrate on them too. Why are these guidelines and legal guidelines not being successfully enforced?” Mohan George, former extra chairman of Delhi Air pollution Management Committee (DPCC), stated.
“We at all times impose a blanket ban however it’s a whole failure if we don’t implement it… These violations proceed in marriage ceremony venues but when police can’t hear them (firecrackers), it’s stunning,” George added.
Earlier this month, the Supreme Courtroom had directed the Delhi police commissioner to take efficient steps to implement an October 14 Delhi authorities order relating to a whole ban on all classes of firecrackers – together with their manufacture, storage, sale, and bursting, in addition to on-line gross sales and supply within the Nationwide Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi – till January 1, 2025.
The Supreme Courtroom had additionally pulled up the Delhi Police for failing to implement the firecracker ban utterly within the nationwide capital. “We discover that the Delhi Police haven’t taken the implementation of the stated order severely. There may be nothing talked about within the affidavit to point out that the order imposing the ban was communicated to those that have been permitted inside the limits of the territory of NCT of Delhi to fabricate, retailer and promote the firecrackers, together with those that promote the firecrackers on-line advertising and marketing platforms,” the bench stated.
The apex court docket stated the Delhi Police ought to have knowledgeable all licence holders and people who promote firecrackers on on-line platforms to cease the sale instantly. “The Delhi Police shall instantly inform these entities which promote firecrackers by means of on-line advertising and marketing platforms to cease the sale and supply of the firecrackers inside the limits of the territory of the NCT of Delhi. We direct the commissioner of the Delhi Police to arrange a particular cell for implementation of the order of ban and maintain the station home officers of all of the native police stations liable for imposing the stated ban,” the court docket had stated.
After the reprimand, the Delhi Police Crime Department on November 19 wrote to social media and e-commerce platforms looking for an instantaneous cease to the net sale of firecrackers. The police stated an e-mail on this regard was despatched to social media and e-commerce platforms that provide on-line gross sales of firecrackers inside the NCT of Delhi.
“E-commerce and social media platforms have been requested for a written affirmation relating to compliance of the instructions,” Devesh Chandra Srivastava, Particular Commissioner of Police (Crime Department), had stated.
