Supreme Court to hear plea on air pollution

New Delhi: The Supreme Court will hear on Tuesday an urgent application seeking measures to control Delhi’s worst smog incident in 17 years which is affected the lives of the people treating the situation as a “public health emergency”.

A three-judge Bench of Chief Justice T.S. Thakur and Justices D.Y. Chandrachud and L. Nageswara Rao directed the matter to be listed before a bench headed by Justice A.K.  Sikri on a ‘mention’ made by counsel Aparajitha.

In its latest report the Environment Pollution Authority sought court’s intervention to direct short-term emergency action and strict enforcement of various directions for effective control of toxic and dangerous air pollution in the nation’s capital.