India, Oct. 12 -- Vasant Kunj residents are alleging that, despite a 2022 Supreme Court order directing the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to upgrade the crematorium at Masoodpur village within a year, no work has been undertaken for the past three years.

In October 2022, the Supreme Court directed the MCD (then the South Delhi Municipal Corporation) to upgrade the over 100-year-old, wood-based crematorium to a modern electric one, while quashing a 2003 Delhi High Court order to shift it to Kisangarh.

However, three years later, nothing has changed, residents say that the lack of an electric crematorium has forced them to travel to crematoriums in other parts of the city.

"The crematorium in Masoodpur is in a really bad state. It...