India, May 3 -- The Supreme Court on Friday expressed serious concern over the repeated fires at Gurugram's Bandhwari landfill and directed the city's municipal body to file a timeline for clearing 900,000 metric tonnes of legacy waste piled at the site.

A bench headed by justice Abhay S Oka, hearing the broader issue of air pollution in Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR), ordered the commissioner of the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) to submit an affidavit specifying the outer limit for removing the legacy waste.

Directing that a response in the matter be filed by May 15, the bench, which also comprised justice Ujjal Bhuyan, asked the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) to consider issuing preventive orders u...