New Delhi [India], July 5 (ANI): Two judges of the Supreme Court recused themselves from listening to the Inter-State water dispute between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu over the Pennaiyar river water sharing.
As the matter got here up for listening to, a bench of Justices AS Bopanna and MM Sundresh recused themselves from listening to the matter since they hail from the rival States concerned within the case.
In a lighter vein, the judges commented that they could begin combating with one another in the event that they have been to take care of the dispute.
“We both cannot hear,” Justice Sundresh, who’s from Tamil Nadu, stated. “We will start fighting,” Justice Bopanna, who hails from Karnataka, stated in a lighter vein.
Place the matter earlier than the Chief Justice of India to represent an applicable bench, stated the bench in its order.
The case pertains to a dispute over the sharing of water from the Pennaiyar River. The Tamil Nadu authorities had filed an authentic swimsuit within the matter towards the Karnataka authorities and the Central authorities.
On Tuesday, the Union Jal Shakti Ministry, by means of an affidavit, knowledgeable the apex court docket that the Union Cabinet has not but taken a ultimate name on the proposal to kind a Pennaiyar Water Disputes Tribunal, though the proposal has been despatched for approval through the Cabinet Secretariat.
In November 2022, the highest court docket pulled up the Centre for a delay in resolving the inter-State dispute by means of negotiations. It had requested to represent the Pennaiyar River Water Tribunal inside three months to resolve the dispute over the sharing of water between the 2 States.
The Supreme Court in November 2019 permitted the Tamil Nadu authorities to invoke the powers of the Central authorities when it comes to the provisions of the Inter-State Water Disputes Act and search the structure after a row over sharing water.
On January 20, 2020, the Centre constituted the negotiations committee to resolve the water dispute.
Tamil Nadu’s view is that the rights and pursuits of the State in river Pennaiyar and its tributaries, an inter-state river, have been prejudicially affected by the chief motion of Karnataka by its varied works, and in violation of 1892 and 1933 agreements.
Tamil Nadu complained that Karnataka has taken up development of a reservoir throughout Markandeyanadhi, a tributary of Pennaiyar, diverts surplus waters of Varathur tank, implements carry irrigation scheme at Yellamallappa Chetty tank, pumps water at Belahalli and a scheme to pump the waters of Pennariyar from Thattanur village to distribute to 160 tanks. (ANI)