On Friday, the Supreme Court dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking to quash FIRs filed in connection with the use of firecrackers during Diwali. Sanjeev Newar and Swati Goel filed the PIL through Advocate Manju Jetley. The petitioner’s lawyer, Shashank Shekhar Jha, claimed that multiple FIRs were filed in different states. He claimed that
