The Supreme Court on Friday (October 10, 2025) indicated that it may revisit its April 3 order imposing a year-long ban on the manufacture, storage, sale, and use of firecrackers in the Delhi-National Capital Region (NCR), while reserving its verdict on pleas seeking permission to allow their production and sale in the region.
A Bench of Chief Justice of India B.R. Gavai and Justice K. Vinod Chandran said it would examine the possibility of allowing the sale and use of green firecrackers certified by the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) and the Petroleum and Explosives Safety Organisation (PESO) during Diwali.
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“We will permit them on a trial basis during Deepavali. We will revisit the Arjun Gopal judgment if necessary, and whatever has been held in it, along with any modifications suggested by you and the amicus curiae. We will try to balance it out,” the Chief Justice told Solicitor-General Tushar Mehta, who appeared for the Centre.
In its 2018 ruling in Arjun Gopal v. Union of India, the top court had declined to impose a complete ban on firecrackers but permitted the manufacture and sale of only “green” variants with re
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