The government faced the court’s wrath days after it expressed concern over the heavy pollution of the Yamuna, stressing that it could not allow people to go into a river “contaminated” with “untreated sewage”, in the interest of public health
The Jan Suraj Party of Prashant Kishor had argued that the bypolls in Bihar should be deferred due to the Chhath Puja celebrations, but the Supreme Court noted that the festival was already over