Violent protests broke out in Bengaluru on Monday after the Supreme Court reprimanded the Karnataka Government for noncompliance of its order to release water to Tamil Nadu. The SC has since modified its Sept 5 order and has asked Karnataka Govt to release 12000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu every day until Sept 20.
Reacting on the SC judgement, Karnataka home minister G Parameshwara said, "SC has reduced water by cusec and extended by days, then how is it a relief? We will again appeal after Sept 20."
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Pro-Kannada activists have torched several vehicles in Bengaluru, focing police to resort to lathicharge.
Earlier on the day, the SC expressed its displeasure over the non-compliance of its order on Cauvery issue by the Karnataka Government. The apex court had on September 5 ordered Karnataka to release 15,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu.
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Karnataka Government on Sunday filed an application seeking a direction to reduce the quantum of water to be released from Cauvery river to Tamil Nadu from 15,000 cusecs to 1,000 cusecs.
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Hearing the plea in a special session on Monday, Justice Dipak Misra observed, “Citizens and executive of this country have to accept and obey the order of the SC unless it is modified.”
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The Supreme Court's decision to hear the plea, filed late on Sunday evening, came after it was mentioned before the court's registry, which consulted Chief Justice T S Thakur.
In its plea, Karnataka has sought modification of the apex court's September 5 order for release of 15,000 cusecs of water for 10 days as immediate relief to Tamil Nadu farmers.
Monday being a holiday, the bench is sitting only to hear the matter. Karnataka's decision to move the Supreme Court comes ahead of the Cauvery Supervisory Committee's meeting on Monday to decide on the quantum of the river's water to be released to Tamil Nadu and other states.
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The application has sought that instead of 10 days, the apex court should restrict the release of water to only 6 as the state itself was facing a distress situation due to a massive agitation which was causing a loss of Rs 500 crore per day to Karnataka.
In the plea, Karnataka has said there was "huge public pressure" and the state police, with great difficulty, have been able to prevent attempts to damage public property.
"Even the minimum arrangement mentioned by your lordships has caused distress and havoc in the entire southern part of Karnataka, paralysing civil life.
The agitation of farmers has been that their dry crop is equalled with that of the farmers in Tamil Nadu. Tamil Nadu's need for the rice crop consumes more than twice the water which is needed for light crops in Karnataka," the application said.
(With PTI Inputs)
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