FOLLOWING the Supreme Court's strict orders on the environ front, West Bengal's anti-pollution enforcement agencies are on red alert. Calcutta's cops are insisting that vehicle owners now have to get their "Pollution Under Control" (Puc) chits issued only from centres approved by the state government. Apparently, during one of those week-long frenetic dances that the Calcutta police occasionally breaks into, vehicles carrying the PUC certificate were found to have failed the pollution tests.
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