'This condition is worse than Emergency': Supreme Court on high degree of pollution in Delhi

Two judges of the Supreme Court on Monday explored various options to quickly improve the national capital Delhi’s toxic air that the court opined was killing people because various government agencies weren’t doing their job.

At one point, Justice Arun Mishra, said: “This (situation in Delhi) is worse than Emergency. That Emergency was better than this emergency.”

The court had in the earlier round of hearing lashed out at the Delhi and central government for trying to pass the buck.

But the judges had made it clear early in the day that they felt the state governments were responsible for controlling stubble burning and must be made answerable.

The 24-hour average Air Quality Index (AQI) value on Monday morning was 437 and the average level of PM2.5 – the finer and more harmful of the particulates – was more than seven times the safe levels.

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