SC to hear on Jul 28 plea on end-of-life limit for BS VI-compliant vehicles in NCR
Supreme Court
on Thursday agreed to hear on July 28 a plea questioning whether
BS VI-compliant vehicles
should have an end-of-life period of 15 years for petrol variants and 10 years for
diesel variants
in the
National Capital Region
.
A bench of Chief Justice of India B R Gavai and Justice K Vinod Chandran agreed to hear the plea after a counsel mentioned it for urgent listing, saying the government cannot override the court's earlier directions on
pollution control
.
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to check pollution in Delhi, the counsel said.
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