India’s top court orders crackdown on stubble burning to cut Delhi pollution
Supreme court says residents are ‘losing precious years’ as judges order immediate halt to practice
India’s top court has ordered a crackdown on stubble burning around Delhi, a major contributor to lethal smog that on Tuesday kept the metropolis of 20 million people choking in air rated “very poor”.
The supreme court said the capital’s residents were “losing precious years” of their lives, adding “people are dying, this just cannot happen in a civilised country”.