New Delhi, Nov. 27 -- The Supreme Court today agreed to urgently list the Delhi-NCR air pollution matter (the MC Mehta case) next Monday, while cautioning that the judiciary cannot be expected to deliver instantaneous solutions to a crisis of this scale.
A Bench, led by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, while hearing a mentioning for urgent listing, remarked that Delhi's worsening air quality is a "health emergency", but stressed that the Court must rely on scientific and expert inputs rather than ad-hoc judicial directions.
"We know the problem. We need to identify all the reasons. There is no one single reason, it would be a mistake to think so," the CJI observed, responding to Senior Advocate Aparajita Singh, the amicus curiae, who hi...