The Supreme Court on Wednesday pulled up the Centre for making the environment protection law “toothless” and said the provision under the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) Act which deals with penalty for stubble burning was not being implemented.

A bench of Justices Abhay S Oka, Ahsanuddin Amanulllah and Augustine George Masih said the CAQM Act of 2021 was enacted without creating required machinery for implementing the provision to curb air pollution.