New Delhi:The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to accord urgent hearing to a PIL seeking fresh guidelines on stubble burning to curb air pollution in Delhi-NCR. The PIL was filed by lawyer Shashank Shekhar Jha.
The PIL has sought a direction to schools, colleges and government and private offices to go virtual/online. The lawyer alleged that the problem of pollution comes up every year and there is a serious threat on the life and liberty due to the smog in Delhi-National Capital Region.
A bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices Hima Kohli and J B Pardiwala said that some issues are not "judicially amenable" and stressed the need for "genuine solutions".
The bench asked lawyer Shashank Shekhar Jha whether banning stubble burning alone would help in curbing air pollution. “So what is your solution to Delhi pollution,” the CJI asked Jha.
On being told that stubble burning is causing the pollution, the bench said, “So we ban it? Will that stop? Do we enforce it against every farmer? Let us think of some genuine solutions. There are things, (where) courts can do something and there are something where courts cannot do. We are to look at the judicial aspects.”
“Some matters, courts can look into and some it cannot. Since they are not judicially amenable… We have heard you and it would not be taken up now,” the CJI said. (Agencies)
