The air quality in India’s national capital, New Delhi, has been a thorn in the side of most of its citizens. The Supreme Court, ahead of the festival of Diwali, ruled that the online sale of fireworks is banned — even via Flipkart and Amazon.
Offline fireworks can only be sold through licensed traders, that too if they come under the cadre of ‘green fireworks’ — that includes the ban of barium salts in fireworks.
Their directive also justified that ‘joined fireworks’ (laris) are banned altogether because they cause unwarranted air, noise and waste pollution.