India, Oct. 22 -- The Bombay High Court on Wednesday reportedly expressed alarm over the Maharashtra's Mumbai surpassing Delhi in pollution levels, air quality shocking while asking authorities how they were not losing sleep over the "emergency situation".

During the hearing, Justice Kulkarni reportedly observed that Mumbai was failing to capitalise on its geographical advantages, including its sea breeze and open spaces.

The bench also flagged reports of Mumbai surpassing Delhi in pollution indexes and noted that visibility in the city had fallen below 500 metres on Tuesday, the Bar and Bench reported.

"This is shocking. The city has a sea breeze coming, which has a lot of open spaces, the whole openness of the sea, still we are facin...