When HT visited Chawri Bazar, Chandni Chowk, and Esplanade Road on Saturday, wholesalers denied having any Chinese crackers for sale. But retailers and street vendors claimed that one could still buy Chinese crackers as long they knew where to look and whom to ask. “Licensed stores in Delhi do not sell banned crackers,” said a wholesaler, RS Sharma. People like and want Chinese crackers,” said a trader, who had run out of his stock of Chinese pop-pops by Saturday. The trader, however, also conceded that the amount of Chinese crackers available in the market was less compared to previous years.

Source: Hindustan Times October 22, 2016 18:26 UTC