India, Nov. 19 -- As Delhi grapples with dangerous levels of Air Quality Index (AQI), the Supreme Court requested the Commission of Air Quality Management (CAQM) to consider issuing directions to the schools in the Delhi-National Capital Region to defer sports activities and competitions scheduled in November-December to later months when the air quality in the national capital improves.

Advocate Aparajita Singh raised the matter and informed the bench that several schools in the Delhi-NCR are scheduled to hold sports meet in November at a time when air quality is at its worst, Livelaw reported.

"Children are most vulnerable, holding sports now is like putting them in gas chambers," she reportedly told the bench comprising Chief Justice...