SC directs NCR states to constitute teams to enforce GRAP measures

The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the states falling in the National Capital Region to constitute teams of officials from police and revenue departments to ensure strict enforcing of the measures under Stage 4 of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) to combat and curb air pollution in the national capital.

- PARMOD KUMAR

Designating the members of these teams as officers of the top court, a bench of Justice Abhay S. Oka and Justice Augustine George Masih said, "We direct NCR states to constitute the teams of members of police, revenue officials to monitor the implementation of GRAP IV measures. We say this that the members so created in this team will work as officers of this court. They will regularly submit reports of compliance and breaches to the Commission for Air Quality Management so that immediate action be taken by all concerned."