NOIDA: Three people accused of selling
illegal firecrackers
have been arrested in separate incidents in
Uttar Pradesh's Noida within a 24-hour period, police said on Monday. Accused Govind Kumar was held on Monday while selling firecrackers near
Sadarpur village
which comes under the jurisdiction of Sector 39 police station, they said.
Four sacks full of a variety of crackers were seized from him, a police spokesperson said.
In another incident, two men were held from
Barola village
, under Sector 49 police station limits, on similar charges on Sunday, the spokesperson said.
At least eight sacks full of firecrackers, estimated worth Rs 80,000, were seized from Shekhar Chauhan and Jeetu Chauhan, the official said.
The accused in both the cases have been booked under provisions of the Explosive Substances Act and jailed, police said.
The police action came amid
the National Green Tribunal
(NGT) on Monday imposing a total ban on sale or use of all kinds of firecrackers in
the National Capital Region
(NCR) from November 9 midnight to November 30 midnight, saying "celebration by crackers is for happiness and not to celebrate deaths and diseases".
The air quality in Noida and
Greater Noida
has largely remained "severe", which affects even healthy people, in recent days, according to government data.
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