Supreme Court stays HC decision to examine if constitutional machinery broke down in state
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“As the apex court, we find it very disturbing. Have you ever seen any high court pass such an order before,” CJI Bobde, heading a three-judge bench, asked senior advocate Siddharth Luthra. The bench issued notices to all parties in the case to file their formal legal submissions before SC and listed the case for next year CJI said.
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The petition filed through advocate Mahfooz Nazki pointed out that the state government had also filed an application in the HC seeking recall of the order.
India s top court offers to mediate to end farmers protest
A protesting farmer sits at the back of his tractor trailer as blocks a highway with other farmers at the Delhi- Haryana border, outskirts of New Delhi, India, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. India s Supreme Court offered on Wednesday to set up a mediation panel to end a three-week protest by tens of thousands of farmers who are demanding the repeal of new agricultural reform laws that they say will drive down crop prices and devastate their earnings. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
FILE- In this Dec.14, 2020 file photo, protesting farmer leaders shout slogans as they sit on a day long hunger strike at the Delhi- Haryana border, outskirts of New Delhi. India’s Supreme Court offered on Wednesday to set up a mediation panel to end a three-week protest by tens of thousands of farmers who are demanding the repeal of new agricultural reform laws that they say will drive down crop prices and devastate their earnings. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup,
India’s Supreme Court offers to mediate to end farmers’ protest
16 Dec 2020
Gulf Today Report
India’s top court offered on Wednesday to set up a mediation panel to immediately remove the farmers who are protesting at several border points of Delhi against three new farm laws since November 26.
The Supreme Court heard a batch, Chief Justice SA Bobde, Justice AS Bopanna and Justice V Ramasubramanian, of pleas seeking direction to end a three-week protest by tens of thousands of farmers who are demanding the repeal of new agricultural reform laws that they say will drive down crop prices and devastate their earnings.
New Delhi: Protesting farmer unions on Wednesday said constituting a new panel to break the stalemate on the three new agri laws, as indicated by the Supreme Court, is not a solution as they want a complete withdrawal of the legislations.
They also said the government should have formed a committee of farmers and others before the laws were enacted by Parliament.
Their assertions came after the Supreme Court indicated earlier in the day that it may form a panel having representatives of the government and farmer unions to resolve the deadlock.
Abhimanyu Kohar, a leader of the Rashtriya Kisan Mazdoor Sabha which is one of 40 protesting farmer unions, said they have already rejected a recent government offer to form such a panel.
India s top court offers to mediate to end farmers protest
by Ashok Sharma, The Associated Press
Posted Dec 16, 2020 4:23 am EDT
Last Updated Dec 16, 2020 at 4:28 am EDT
NEW DELHI India’s Supreme Court offered on Wednesday to set up a mediation panel to end a three-week protest by tens of thousands of farmers who are demanding the repeal of new agricultural reform laws that they say will drive down crop prices and devastate their earnings.
The court sent notices to the government and the farmers’ representatives across the country seeking their views on the proposal and set Thursday for a possible decision.