Supreme Court Relents, Relaxes Time For Bursting Crackers In Tamil Nadu And Puducherry

The Supreme Court reworked their order by fixing a new slot from 8 pm to 10 pm for bursting firecrackers on Diwali and stated that the timings would be changed in places like Tamil Nadu and Puducherry but will not exceed two hours a day.

A bench comprising of Justices A K Sikri and Ashok Bhushan observed that the order permitting the use of green crackers was meant only for the Delhi-NCR region and not pan India, as reported by TNIE.

The court was hearing several applications filed by the Tamil Nadu government and manufacturers of firecrackers seeking the modification and clarification of the order passed by the Court on October 23.

The Tamil Nadu government had earlier urged the court to allow firecrackers on Diwali morning as it was part of religious practices in the state, apart from the already permitted time of 8 pm to 10 pm. The counsel appearing on behalf of the firecracker manufacturers argued that it was not possible to come up with ‘green crackers’ this Diwali as there was no set composition for manufacturing them.