The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued a notice to the Centre and others on a batch of petitions seeking removal of farmers camping at several roads near Delhi borders in protest against the three new agri laws.
A bench comprising Chief Justice SA Bobde, and Justices AS Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian also indicated that the court may form a committee having representatives of the Government and the farmer unions across the country to resolve the deadlock over the legislations.
In a hearing conducted via video conferencing, the bench directed the petitioners to make protesting farmer unions parties to the pleas and posted the matter for hearing on Thursday. “Your negotiations with protesting farmers have not worked apparently till now,” the bench told the Centre.
Meanwhile, 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.
