{"id":16274,"date":"2021-11-01T16:48:36","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T11:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=16274"},"modified":"2021-11-04T22:50:57","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T17:20:57","slug":"supreme-court-allows-green-firecrackers-for-kali-puja-diwali-other-festivals-in-bengal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/supreme-court-allows-green-firecrackers-for-kali-puja-diwali-other-festivals-in-bengal\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court allows \u201cgreen firecrackers\u201d for Kali Puja, Diwali &#038; other festivals in Bengal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the bursting of green firecrackers in Bengal, turning down the Calcutta High Court order banning sale, purchase and use of all firecrackers in the state during Kali Puja, Diwali and some other celebrations this year.<\/p>\n<p>The plea moved before the apex court said that the High Court order was \u201cpatently erroneous\u201d in holding complete ban in Bengal, when the apex court has allowed the use of green firecrackers in permissible limits across all states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe high court failed to appreciate that green crackers with reduced emission by a minimum of 30 per cent have been introduced in the local market. These are environment friendly,\u201d the plea said. It was filed by the chairperson of a Bengal-based firecracker association and another group. The petitioners said that they were representing interests of about seven lakh families involved in manufacture and sale of fireworks. A blanket ban would cause huge losses to those involved, the petition added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the bursting of green firecrackers in Bengal, turning down the Calcutta High Court order banning sale, purchase and use of all firecrackers in the state during Kali Puja, Diwali and some other celebrations this year. The plea moved before the apex court said that the High Court order was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1236,"featured_media":6957,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[582,5186,5185,317,583],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-bengal","8":"tag-cover-story","9":"tag-firecrackers","10":"tag-kali-puja-diwali","11":"tag-pollution","12":"tag-top-story"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16274"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16276,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16274\/revisions\/16276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16274"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=16274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}