By: Express News ServiceNew Delhi | December 15, 2025 02:21 PM IST 3 min readAmicus curiae Aparajitha Singh said children’s sports events were held despite a court ban during peak pollution. (file)The amicus curiae in the air pollution matter informed the Supreme Court Monday that schools in the Delhi-National Capital Region (NCR) have been holding sports activities notwithstanding the court’s direction to refrain from doing so during November-December, considering air quality issues.“There is already an order passed by Your Lordships last month that during November and December, sports events for children will not take place. Despite that, during this severe pollution, they found ways and means to have these sporting activities. And so now the children are also not being spared. What has been prohibited by your lordships, those activities are taking place,” Senior Advocate Aparajitha Singh told a three-judge bench presided over by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant.Singh pointed out that the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) “has again taken out a notification saying that this is the order of the Supreme Court, that children can’t be playing outdoors. But they have found ways and means to bypass the court’s orders.”Urging the court to take it up for early hearing, she said, “All the protocols are in place but it is finally about monitoring. Every year the problem is, till Your Lordships actually direct the states, they don’t comply with the orders.”The CJI said the matter will be taken up for hearing by a three-judge bench on December 17.“If the problem is there, then what is the practical solution, what kind of directions which can be given, we should only issue such directions. Otherwise, as you rightly say, if we pass an order, either they are unable to comply with it, or people don’t understand the sensitivity of that order. We have to find solutions to both problems. See, one is enforcement. There are certain directions which cannot be forcibly enforced,” CJI Kant said.“People will have to adapt to those conditions. They need to modify, they need to change their lifestyle also. That’s also a great difficulty in these bigger cities, metropolitan cities. People have their own lifestyle, they don’t change it. When I am talking of people, it’s the affluent class of people. The problem arises with them,” the CJI added.Story continues below this adSingh said, “The worst sufferers are the poor. Now with GRAP IV, the construction workers are out of work.”The CJI added that there is a direct adverse impact on the poor. “We will see what is to be done.” © The Indian Express Pvt LtdTags:Legalsupreme court