In Uttar Pradesh, the state government today sought answer from police chiefs of 26 districts over stubble burning incidents and absence of proper control over them, despite the orders of the Supreme Court and directives of the Yogi Adityanath dispensation.

Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Awanish Awasthi in a statement in Luckow, said that the government has taken it very seriously and demanded an answer from police chiefs by December 3. The state government had sent the list of incidents of stubble burning to these police chiefs from October 1 last year to November 25 this year.