As India celebrated the Diwali, pollution levels skyrocketed in Delhi, with netizens across the national capital reporting AQI figures at 1000 or even higher.

Apart from alarmed citizens who flooded social media, even Rajya Sabha MP and Trinamool Congress (TMC) spokesperson Saket Gokhale even shared a screenshot showing an AQI reading of 1975 at the Mandir Marg monitoring station at 1.30 am on Tuesday.

Images of smog-obscured streets circulated on social media on Tuesday morning seemed to cement peoples' apprehensions that air pollution in Delhi-NCR had reached catastrophic levels in the aftermath of Diwali celebrations.

But, did it? It's not a straightforward answer.

Did AQI in Delhi cross 1000 after Diwali?

Yes, and no.

Most of the screenshots shared by social media users seemed

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