Supreme Court imposes year-long firecracker ban in Delhi-NCR

The Supreme Court on Thursday confirmed the ban on sale, production, and manufacture of firecrackers in Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) as “absolutely necessary”.

A Bench by Justices A.S. Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan dismissed applications filed by traders to reconsider the ban on crackers or reduce the prohibition to three or four months a year.

The court reasoned that restricting the ban to a few months would not serve any purpose, as firecrackers would be stored throughout the year only to be sold and used during the period of the enforcement of the ban.