The Punjab and Haryana Excessive Courtroom has directed Punjab, Haryana, and Chandigarh to make sure strict compliance with Supreme Courtroom pointers on the use, sale, and buy of firecrackers.
The order got here throughout a listening to of a PIL filed by advocate Sunaina, who sought steps to implement the Supreme Courtroom and Excessive Courtroom’s instructions on firecracker use to minimise air pollution and scale back adversarial well being results throughout festivities. Sunaina referenced the Supreme Courtroom rulings in “Arjun Gopal and others vs. Union of India and others” (2016 and 2017) and a 2017 suo motu case towards the Chandigarh Administration, each addressing air pollution management throughout firecracker use.
Sunaina argued that air high quality in Punjab, Haryana, and Chandigarh has been steadily deteriorating. She urged that strict adherence to the courts’ pointers would assist enhance environmental high quality and public well being.
The petition cited the Supreme Courtroom’s restrictions on poisonous firecracker elements like antimony, lithium, mercury, arsenic, lead, and strontium chromate and established restricted timeframes for firecracker use: from 8-10 pm on Diwali, and from 11:45 pm to 12:45 am on Christmas and New 12 months’s Eve.
In its remarks, the Excessive Courtroom famous that the Supreme Courtroom has supplied adequate pointers on firecracker use and gross sales, which the manager authorities in Punjab, Haryana, and Chandigarh ought to strictly implement.
Disposing of the petition, the Excessive Courtroom directed these states and Chandigarh to conform totally with the Supreme Courtroom’s pointers to mitigate firecracker-related air pollution.
