Delhi air pollution: SC flags 'abject failure' in GRAP-4 implementation, warns against 'satellite scam'

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday said the second report submitted by the court commissioners showed an "abject failure" of authorities in implementing the GRAP-4 guidelines.

While hearing the air pollution case, the court also took note of a news report that stubble burning was being allowed by officials in Punjab after 4 pm to avoid satellite detection.

During the hearing, a bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Augustine George Masih also refused to relax the emergency measures under the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP)-4 to deal with air pollution in the national capital.

The court ordered that the strict GARP-4 measure will continue till December 2.