Firecracker Ban Case : Supreme Court Adjourns Hearing Till 3 PM Today To Hear West Bengal Govt [LIVE UPDATES]

Bench: If any case occurring, the police can move to action. We have more than one order of the SC dealing with the Covid situation.

Adv Rakhmani (appeared for petitioner in HC): The task of checking the QR code has to be done at the entry point. Owing to the paucity of time, it is a month of festivities involving crackers.

Bench: The pollution level when worse than poor or bad, the sale has to be stopped.

Adv Trivedi: The green crackers have already reached the retailers. The QR code mechanism is already in place.

It can easily be done by scanning which has happened in the past. By scanning, you know which are the green crackers and fake crackers.

Grover: The State Pollution Board says that there are no registered green crackers manufacturers.

Grover: I have to check up what are the logistics. We have been enforcing it diligently. I will be putting your Lordships suggestion to the State.

Bench to Grover: You have to strengthen the mechanism.

Grover: The police regularly goes to the market.

Bench: If the verification can be done at the import stage.

Bench: It is not possible for police to verify the products which are imported.

Bench: Whether the State pollution board carries on any verification of green crackers?

Grover: This month, 7 FIRs had been registered and 10 people were arrested.

Grover: There is a mechanism, the police has the application. From 2018, we have been enforcing. We have registered FIRs.

Bench: How many FIRs registered?

Grover: In 2018, 24 FIRs had been registered and 46 people arrested.