Updated Jan 12, 2021 | 18:27 IST
The court-appointed committee on farm laws will sit for the first time within the next 10 days and will have to give its report in two months thereafter. Representational Image | Photo Credit: PTI
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SC: Stay on implementation of farm laws may assuage hurt feelings of farmers
The Supreme Court has stayed implementation of the three farm laws passed by the Parliament in 2020, which had allowed farmers to sell their produce outside the APMC Act controlled mandis . Ordering the formation of a 4-member committee to examine the concerns of farmers, the top court clarified that the stay on implementation of these laws isn t indefinite.