Must follow the Blackstone's Ratio before scrapping / refusing fuel to the 4.9L EOL vehicles in Delhi.

Must follow the Blackstone's Ratio before scrapping / refusing fuel to the 4.9L EOL vehicles in Delhi.

Cameras at Delhi pumps detected ONLY 4.9 lakh 'overaged' vehicles, as well 25 lakh without PUCC, out of the total 3.6 crore vehicles screened at 500 out of 520 petrol pumps in Delhi.

It means in the last 6 to 7 months, only 4.9L EOL vehicles could be detected, which is only 1.36% of the total number of vehicles that have been screened, while those without PUCC are no more than 7%.

Does it mean that all the rest of the so called Polluting EOL vehicles have already been shifted out of Delhi or Scrapped, as they could not be screened at any of the petrol pumps of Delhi ?

Many out of these 4.9L EOL Vehicles may belong to the non active senior citizens of Delhi, who rarely get their vehicles on the road and these vehicles must be in a very good condition & non polluting.

Let's come forward to help and support our senior citizens, the bona-fide voters who contributed for the city their entire life, so that they are not deprived of their only vehicle which is getting punished for no fault.

Therefore, we must test the so called 4.9L EOL vehicles to find out if they are really Polluting or if they require some minor maintenance, before ordering to scrap.

Blackstone's ratio is a legal principle stating that it is better for a guilty person to go free than for an innocent person to be wrongly convicted. The ratio is often expressed as "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer". This principle emphasizes the importance of protecting the innocent and minimizing the risk of wrongful convictions in the justice system. 

However, our question are:

1. Delhi does not have 3.6 cr vehicles. So where from the rest of the vehicles have come ? 

2. As per caqm, Delhi has 62 Lakh EOL Vehicles, but why only 4.9L detected ? Where the rest of the vehicles have gone ?

3. Almost 3.6 Cr vehicles keep Polluting Delhi & we want to scrap just 1.36% of it, I.e. 4.9L vehicles to save Delhi from Pollution. Is that a joke ?

B S Vohra

President, East Delhi RWAs Joint Front

Comments received:

Mr Anil Sood from Chetna NGO says,"First of all what is the logic of scarping 10/15 years old cars without removing encroachments from city roads and synchronising traffic signals. With these conditions, even brand new cars would pollute. The institutional polluters are getting away with and common citizens are being punished by fabricated report prepared by IIT Kanpur".