Chief Justice of India SA Bobde. | PTI
Chief Justice of India SA Bobde said on Tuesday that a person cannot be disqualified from being a member of a committee just because they have earlier expressed an opinion on the subject that is under consideration by the panel,
Bar and Bench reported. He was indirectly referring to the four-member committee created by the Supreme Court to resolve the deadlock between protesting farmers and the Centre on three contentious agricultural laws.
“There is some confusion regarding the law,” Bobde said during a hearing of a case related to inadequacies and inefficiencies in criminal trial. “One person may have an opinion before being part of the committee but his opinion can change. There is no way that such a person cannot be part of the committee.”
Two of India’s richest men have landed in an unlikely controversy over farming laws, becoming targets of protesters who allege the tycoons have benefited from their close links to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. For weeks, tens of thousands of farmers have camped outside the nation’s capital, demanding the withdrawal of recently passed legislation they say, without evidence, was designed to allow billionaires such as Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Adani to enter farming. The tycoons say they have no such interest. More than 1,500 phone towers of Ambani’s wireless carrier were vandalised last month and some farmers called for a boycott of their businesses.
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Farmers at the Singhu border, Saturday, January 16, 2021. Photo: PTI/Arun Sharma
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P. Chidambaram. Photo: PTI
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