New Delhi: The increasing level of air pollution in Delhi has even forced Chief Justice of India to HL Dattu make a rare appeal. He said his grandson wears a mask and looks like a ninja to escape the pollution.
"My grandson wears mask due to pollution," Justice Dattu said during a hearing on the "alarming" levels of air pollution in Delhi.
Usually critical of the reportage of the observations made during its hearings, Justice Dattu had a different take on it. "This is one case where newspapers should report as to what transpired in the court during the hearing," a bench headed by Chief Justice Dattu said.
"My grandson wears mask due to pollution," the CJI said when senior advocate Harish Salve submitted that he had to take steroid for the first time a few days ago.
The Supreme Court has now issued notices to the Centre and Delhi government, asking why an environment charge of Rs 600 and Rs 1200 should not be imposed on trucks and heavy vehicles in the capital.
Justice Dattu and Salve favoured wide coverage of the discourse on the matter in the Supreme Court. "My wife has asthma. My daughter has asthma and I had to take steroid first time two days back," Salve said.
"This is a serious issue. We will take up this matter on Thursday. We want positive response," the bench, also comprising Justices Arun Mishra and Adarsh Kumar Goel, said.
Salve, who is the amicus curiae in a 1985 PIL filed by environmentalist MC Mehta, termed the situation as "alarming" and sought urgent intervention of the court before it worsened further with the onset of winter.
(With additional information from PTI)
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