Farm laws: Petitioner seeks to implead over 40 protesting farmer unions as party in SC
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Last Updated: Dec 23, 2020, 07:54 PM IST
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Law student Rishabh Sharma, one of the petitioners in the case, has now filed an amended memo of parties in the top court in which he has impleaded over 40 farmer unions, including Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU), as respondents in the matter.
The top court had on December 16 permitted impleading of these eight unions as respondents in the matter.
One of the petitioners, who has approached the Supreme Court for direction to the authorities to remove farmers protesting at several border points of Delhi against three new farm laws, has sought to implead over 40 farmer unions as party in the pending case. A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde, which had on December 17 said that farmers agitation should be allowed to continue without impediment and the apex court will not interfere with it as the right to protest is a fundament
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Farmers protest at the Singhu border against three recently enacted farm laws. Farmer unions have not yet agreed to become party to a petition filed in the Supreme Court challenging the protests. Shahid Tantray for The Caravan
Farmers protest at the Singhu border against three recently enacted farm laws. Farmer unions have not yet agreed to become party to a petition filed in the Supreme Court challenging the protests. Shahid Tantray for The Caravan
On 16 December, the Supreme Court proposed the formation of a committee comprising representatives of the central government and farmers organisations to resolve the ongoing deadlock over three recently enacted farm laws. In its interim order on 16 December, the court granted eight farmer leaders, the “permission to implead as respondents” to a petition seeking the removal of the prot