India, Sept. 13 -- The Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday raised pointed questions over the selective imposition of the firecracker ban in the Delhi-NCR region, saying if clean air was a right for elite residents of the national Capital, the same must extend to citizens across the country.
A bench comprising Chief Justice of India (CJI) BR Gavai and Justice K Vinod Chandran was hearing pleas concerning regulation of firecrackers in the National Capital Region (NCR).
"If cities in NCR are entitled for clean air, why not people of other cities? Whatever policy has to be there, it has to be on a pan-India basis. We cannot have a policy just for Delhi because they are elite citizens of the country.
"I was in Amritsar last winter and the pollutio...