NEW DELHI: Automobile giant Mercedes-Benz has moved the Supreme Court asking for the ban on diesel vehicles to be lifted. The German car manufacturing firm said it was ready to pay the environmental cess of 1% levied on the sale of diesel cars.
The Supreme Court hearing will take place on Friday. The apex court had banned the use of diesel vehicles having a fuel capacity of over 2000cc in Delhi NCR in an attempt to tackle air pollution in the NCR. The court wasn't swayed by the government's request to it to to relax the ban, and its promise to implement an action plan to deal with pollution, the Economic Times reported.
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Attorney General told the apex court that its decision cost millions of people employed in the automobile industry their jobs, and "inconsistent policy" created "uncertainty" in the minds of foreign investors, the report said. He added that automobile giants Mercedes-Benz and Toyota had offered to pay a one percent cess on their vehicles' showroom prices.
