Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Sunday (July 6, 2025) said that her government will echo the sentiments of the people of Delhi before the Supreme Court and urge it to allow uniform rules on overage vehicles in the national capital in line with those followed across the country.

Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena has also written to Ms. Gupta urging her government to file a review petition in the Supreme Court, saying that it is “irrational to imagine that a 10-year-old Diesel vehicle has reached its end of life in Delhi while remaining roadworthy in other parts of the country.”

A 2018 Supreme Court judgement banned diesel vehicles older than 10 years and petrol vehicles older than 15 years in Delhi in an attempt to reduce vehicular pollution in the Capital.

The L-G in his letter wrote that he acknowledges that the Air pollution is a shared responsibility and must be addressed with urgency and foresight. He called for a more balanced and technologically advanced framework to deal with vehicle emissions. “The policy execution must also reflect principles of legality, fairness, and socioeconomic sensitivity,” Mr. Saxena said.

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Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of an event, Ms. Gupta said “We will tell the Supreme Court about the pollution control measures taken by the government. The parameters that are applicable in the entire country should also apply to Delhi. We want Delhiites not to face any inconvenience.”

Last week, Environment Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa wrote to the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) to put on hold its direction to deny fuel to end-of-life vehicles at fuel stations and also impound such vehicles identified through Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras installed at the fuel stations. But the CAQM is yet to officially respond or issue any statement in this regard.

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On April 23, the CAQM had directed that all ELVs identified through the ANPR cameras or other such systems installed at the fuel stations shall be denied fueling from July 1 in Delhi and from November 1 in five districts of Gurugram, Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Gautam Budh Nagar and Sonipat and from April 1, 2026 in the rest of NCR.

The Delhi Government supported the CAQM’s directions and from July 1, the Transport Department of the Delhi government and traffic police started to impound ELVs reaching the fuel stations. However, days later, Mr. Sirsa wrote to the CAQM asking them to put on hold the ban.