A Supreme Court bench, while hearing the matter of Delhi air pollution on Wednesday, November 17, said that people in Delhi sit in 5- and 7-star hotels and blame farmers for pollution. The Supreme Court said what it is seeing is the plight of farmers.
"People sitting in 5, 7-star hotels in Delhi criticise how they [farmers] contribute to pollution. Have you seen their earnings per land holding?" Chief Justice of India NV Ramana asked. He said: "We ignore the fact that firecrackers are burning despite the ban." CJI Ramana remarked: "There has to be some responsibility. Not everything can be done through judicial orders." He then sought to know why firecrackers had been allowed to be burnt in Delhi over the 10 days after Diwali.
