{"id":199400,"date":"2018-08-02T20:00:42","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T14:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=199400"},"modified":"2018-08-02T20:41:11","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T15:11:11","slug":"sc-blanket-ban-on-the-sale-of-firecrackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2018\/08\/02\/sc-blanket-ban-on-the-sale-of-firecrackers\/","title":{"rendered":"SC: Blanket Ban on the sale of firecrackers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Supreme Court:<\/strong>\u00a0 The 3-Judge Bench of Dr AK Sikri, Abhay Manohar Sapre and Ashok Bhushan, JJ., in an earlier judgment of\u00a0<strong>Arjun Gopal v. Union of India<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/51TkIWqU\">(2017) 16 SCC 267<\/a> <strong>had refused to put a blanket ban on the sale of crackers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Division bench comprising of AK Sikri and Ashok Bhushan, JJ in an order dated 01-08-2018 stated that it would examine whether there should be a blanket ban on the use of firecrackers due to the air pollution in Delhi being touched to danger mark during Diwali.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Supreme Court bench had in regard to the blanket ban stated that \u201cAre we supposed to take a holistic approach and ban everything that contributes to pollution or take an ad-hoc approach and simply ban firecrackers?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The matter was further listed for 08-08-2018.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[Source: PTI]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court:\u00a0 The 3-Judge Bench of Dr AK Sikri, Abhay Manohar Sapre and Ashok Bhushan, JJ., in an earlier judgment of\u00a0Arjun Gopal <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8808,"featured_media":154914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1188,2],"tags":[4271,23623,24114],"class_list":["post-199400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hot_off_the_press","category-news","tag-ban","tag-diwali","tag-sale-of-firecrackers"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SC: Blanket Ban on the sale of firecrackers? 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