Talking tough on pollution in Delhi, the Supreme Court has asked the Central Pollution Control Board to prosecute government officials, for not acting on around 250 complaints received by it, from citizens.
A Supreme Court bench of justices Madan B Lokur and Deepak Gupta, on November 26, 2018, said officials who have failed to act on complaints regarding pollution in Delhi, were required to be prosecuted. “Why don’t you prosecute these officials? You should prosecute them. Let these people realise what they have done,” the bench told additional solicitor general ANS Nadkarni, who was appearing for the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). The court said this on a day, when monitoring stations in the national capital recorded air quality in the ‘very poor’ category.
Nadkarni said that from November 1-22, 2018, the CPCB received 749 air pollution complaints on their social media accounts and action was taken on around 500 such complaints. Regarding the court’s suggestion to prosecute the officials responsible for not acting on the complaints, he said the CPCB would look into it. The CPCB, on November 1, 2018, told the apex court it had created social media accounts on Twitter and Facebook, where citizens could lodge their complaints about pollution in the Delhi-National Capital Region (NCR).
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