NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday expressed concern over the failure of several air quality monitoring stations in Delhi during Diwali, observing that authorities cannot wait for pollution levels to hit the “severe” mark before acting. During the hearing of the MC Mehta case, a bench comprising Chief Justice BR Gavai and Justice K Vinod Chandran directed the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) to file an affidavit outlining the steps taken to prevent further deterioration of air quality in the Delhi-NCR region. Senior advocate Aparajita Singh, appearing as amicus curiae, flagged alarming media reports that many monitoring stations were non-functional during Diwali - a period when pollution typically spikes. "There are newspapers after newspapers saying that monito

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