The order comes two days after the court stipulated that no fire-crackers must be lit after 2300 hours on Diwali in an attempt to reduce the air and noise pollution and directed the police to enforce the order. Responding to a petition filed by Lt Col Y.K. Wahi seeking improvisation of facilities in the Safdarjung hospital burns ward, a division bench comprising of Justices Y K Sabharwal and K.S. Gupta asked the central and state governments to ensure availability of all necessary monitoring apparatus in such wards. They directed the Delhi Police commissioner to post an assistant sub-inspector (ASI) in every city hospital to speed up any documentation needed in a burns case.

They also directed the Delhi Government Health Services to make all the necessary arrangements for treating burns at Safdarjung hospital, Ram Manohar Lohia hospital, Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narain hospital, Suchitra Kriplani hospital, Kalawati Saran hospital and Deen Dayal Upadhyay hospital.