India, Dec. 14 -- The Delhi High Court has ruled that the implementation of the Graded Response Action Plan (Grap) to curb pollution does not compel the Centre to allow its employees to work from home, as the guidelines merely confer a discretionary power on the government to permit such arrangements.

A bench of justice Sachin Datta made the observation while dealing with a petition filed by Shubham Verma, an "E-Scientist" at the Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT), an autonomous telecommunications technology development body functioning under the department of telecommunications, Government of India.

In his plea, Verma contended that the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) had, with effect from November 21, 2025, mand...