The Delhi excessive courtroom on Wednesday refused to permit devotees to carry out Chhath Puja on the Yamuna river financial institution positioned in Geeta Colony, expressing concern relating to the excessive degree of air pollution within the river.
“It is going to be very dangerous to you. The actual fact is that the river is so polluted that for those who dip into it, there may be the probability that…… individual will undergo hurt. We will’t permit that. The river itself is extremely polluted,” a bench of chief justice Manmohan and justice Tushar Rao Gedela stated.
Delhi authorities’s counsel, Santosh Kumar Tripathi instructed the excessive courtroom that the Yamuna river is extremely polluted at this juncture, and if the devotees are allowed to carry out Chhath Puja on the riverbed, they’re prone to fall sick, Stay Regulation reported.
Santosh Kumar Tripathi additionally instructed the courtroom that the Delhi authorities has earmarked 1,000 spots to carry out the Chhath Puja within the nationwide capital and ample preparations are made for a similar, it added.
Rejecting the plea, the excessive courtroom famous its current order within the Shabnam Burney case, by which judicial discover was taken about the truth that air pollution within the Yamuna River is at an all-time excessive.
The Delhi excessive courtroom ruling comes whilst thick poisonous foam was seen floating on the Yamuna River in Kalindi Kunj, because the air pollution degree within the river stays excessive.
The primary day of Chhath Puja on Tuesday noticed quite a few devotees immerse themselves within the Yamuna River for a ritual bathtub regardless of thick layers of poisonous foam masking its floor.
Chhath Puja is a big occasion for Delhi’s Purvanchali group, which consists of Bhojpuri-speaking residents from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and Jharkhand. This group represents 30-40 per cent of the voter base in Delhi, the place meeting elections are scheduled for early subsequent yr.
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