India's National Green Tribunal ruled in November VW must deposit a fine of 1.7 billion rupees ($24 million) with the pollution control board as "health damage". The court on Thursday slammed VW for disregarding its fine order and warned that it will order the arrest of Volkswagen directors if the company fails to pay one billion rupees before 5:00 pm (1130 GMT) on Friday. "Why have you not complied with our order when there is no stay. We will not give you any further time," the green tribunal said. The tribunal's order followed a plea by a New Delhi school teacher who sought a ban on more than 300,000 Volkswagen diesel vehicles on Indian roads for violating pollution norms.
The court formed an expert panel that found that the German cars released approximately 48.678 tonnes of nitrogen oxide in 2016 in the already severely polluted Indian capital.