After SC rap, Delhi Police urge people to avoid firecracker use in wedding season

Delhi’s aerial prime scale (AQI) has fluctuated betwixt the ‘very poor’ and ‘severe’ categories ever since the GRAP-IV was enforced connected November 18. And contempt the ongoing prohibition connected firecrackers successful the nationalist capital, fireworks person lit up skies this wedding season.

“The wide publicised prohibition connected the storage, manufacturing, and merchantability of firecrackers…is a full failure. The bursting of firecrackers tin beryllium heard by an mean idiosyncratic truthful the enforcement agencies indispensable beryllium alert of them too. Why are these rules and laws not being efficaciously enforced?” Mohan George, erstwhile further president of Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC), said.

“We ever enforce a broad prohibition but it is simply a full nonaccomplishment if we bash not enforce it… These violations proceed successful wedding venues but if constabulary cannot perceive them (firecrackers), it is shocking,” George added.

Earlier this month, the Supreme Court had directed the Delhi constabulary commissioner to instrumentality effectual steps to instrumentality an October 14 Delhi authorities bid regarding a implicit prohibition connected each categories of firecrackers – including their manufacture, storage, sale, and bursting, arsenic good arsenic online income and transportation successful the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi – until January 1, 2025.

The Supreme Court had besides pulled up the Delhi Police for failing to instrumentality the firecracker prohibition wholly successful the nationalist capital. “We find that the Delhi Police person not taken the implementation of the said bid seriously. There is thing mentioned successful the affidavit to amusement that the bid imposing the prohibition was communicated to those who person been permitted wrong the limits of the territory of NCT of Delhi to manufacture, store and merchantability the firecrackers, including those who merchantability the firecrackers online selling platforms,” the seat said.

The apex tribunal said the Delhi Police should person informed each licence holders and those who merchantability firecrackers connected online platforms to halt the merchantability immediately. “The Delhi Police shall instantly pass those entities which merchantability firecrackers done online selling platforms to halt the merchantability and transportation of the firecrackers wrong the limits of the territory of the NCT of Delhi. We nonstop the commissioner of the Delhi Police to acceptable up a peculiar compartment for implementation of the bid of prohibition and clasp the presumption location officers of each the section constabulary stations liable for enforcing the said ban,” the tribunal had said.

After the reprimand, the Delhi Police Crime Branch connected November 19 wrote to societal media and e-commerce platforms seeking an contiguous halt to the online merchantability of firecrackers. The constabulary said an email successful this respect was sent to societal media and e-commerce platforms that connection online income of firecrackers wrong the NCT of Delhi.

“E-commerce and societal media platforms person been asked for a written confirmation regarding compliance of the directions,” Devesh Chandra Srivastava, Special Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch), had said.