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Environmentalist Subhas Dutta had moved a public interest litigation in 2005 complaining that pollution caused by auto emission during night had reached an alarming level in the city and the state government had done nothing to deal with it.
Acting on the direction of the court, the transport secretary filed an affidavit in September 2006, stating that there was no lack of infrastructure in Kolkata and its outskirts to check pollution due to auto emission.
In 2008, Transport Secretary Sumantra Chaudhury placed another affidavit saying that the department had constituted a team to keep a watch on pollution at night.
Dutta, however, pleaded before the court on Friday that the teams set up by the transport department failed to carry out its task.
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