India, Nov. 29 -- The Bombay High Court on Friday appointed a five-member team to inspect construction sites across Mumbai and verify whether they are complying with guidelines issued to curb air pollution. The panel has been asked to submit its report within a week.

The division bench of Chief Justice Shree Chandrashekhar and Justice Gautam Akhand passed the order while hearing a suo motu public interest litigation concerning Mumbai's deteriorating air quality. The court took up the matter along with several intervention pleas after Senior Advocate Darius Khambata and Advocate Pooja Thorat jointly mentioned the issue in view of the city's Air Quality Index (AQI) crossing 300 this month.

Khambata told the bench that despite multiple dir...