Delhi High Court asks northern states about steps to prevent stubble burning

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday asked the Centre and several northern states to inform it about the steps they have been taken to check rising air pollution due to stubble burning and bursting of crackers. A bench of Justices S Ravindra Bhat and S P Garg asked the Centre, the governments of Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab and Rajasthan to file affidavits indicating compliance of its earlier orders on stubble burning and bursting of crackers.