The Supreme Court on Wednesday took suo motu cognisance of a “disturbing” news on Uttar Pradesh government's decision to allow ''Kanwar Yatra'' amidst the Covid-19 pandemic and sought responses from the state as well as the Centre on the matter.

A bench headed by Justice R F Nariman referred to the statement of Prime Minister Narendra Modi that not “even a bit” of compromise can be made on Covid-19 containment and said the citizens were “perplexed” about the happenings in view of the fact that as the UP government has allowed the religious ''yatra'' commencing from July 25.