SUPREME COURT UPHOLD PLEA ON BAN ON REGISTRATION OF DIESEL VEHICLE,AUTO MANUFACTURES DOESN’T GET IMMEDIATE RELIEF
New Delhi: The automobile manufacturers, who had moved the Supreme Court seeking modification of the court’s December order banning registration of diesel vehicles in the capital, did not get any immediate relief.
Senior advocates Kapil Sibal, Abhishek Manu Singhvi and Aryama Sundaram contested the premise that diesel vehicles are polluting by nature and argued that it depended on the technology.
Sibal and Singhvi appearing for the SUV manufacturers also argued that the larger vehicles account for just 0.2% pollution and that smaller vehicles contribute more to the pollution.
They suggested that the court’s move could prove counter productive as it would encourage usage of smaller vehicles, which are more polluting.
