Man sent to jail, fined Rs 3.5 lakh for polluting Yamuna

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New Delhi: A city court has sent a bakery unit owner here to jail for two years and slapped a total fine of Rs 3.5 lakh on him for discharging untreated waste into the Yamuna, saying such an insensitive approach has led to pollution in the river.

It is only because of the insensitivity of the people like the bakery unit owner that "the current generation is unable to have a pure and clean Yamuna and thus is deprived of the use of natural resources," the court said, adding that the appellant had "not cared for the principle of intergenerational equity."