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The Delhi High Court on Thursday stated that the alarming levels of air pollution were like capital punishment for citizens of the city, curtailing about three years from their lives due to rampant crop burning and government inaction.
The court stated that the problem was causing the decimation of around 60 million life years or about one million deaths. "It is literally capital punishment as the capital is being punished and that too for no offence. People are being killed in the capital. You cannot kill Delhi," the bench of Justices Badar Durrez Ahmed and Ashutsh Kumar said, terming reduction
