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Supreme Court raps Centre for apathy
An angry Supreme Court on Thursday pulled up the Centre\'s counsel for not submitting its affidavit in response to the Court directive last month. The apex court had asked the Centre to submit its view on the Telangana government\'s plea in the Krishna Waters dispute case.
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KRISHNA WATER ROW
Court pulls up Union govt counsel for failure to submit affidavit
- Case adjourned to next Tuesday
- Judge takes a dig at Centre’s counsel for casual attitude
New Delhi: An angry Supreme Court on Thursday pulled up the Centre's counsel for not submitting its affidavit in response to the Court directive last month. The apex court had asked the Centre to submit its view on the Telangana government's plea in the Krishna Waters dispute case.
Justice Deepak Mishra and Justice P C Pant, who were hearing the arguments into the plea of Telangana, which was seeking justice in water allocation to it as the State was bifurcated, asked the Centre how it could neglect such a serious petition. The court adjourned the case to next Tuesday.
Senior Counsel Vaidyanathan, who was appearing for Telangana State, argued that Telangana had every right to seek either a fresh allocation order or the setting up of a new tribunal itself to resolve the dispute between the four States.
He pointed out that the two upper riparian States, Karnataka and Maharashtra, were not only utilising the water for irrigation purposes but also storing the same in huge dams denying Telangana and AP their due. The injustice to Telangana was continuing from 1956 onwards, he maintained.
At this juncture, Justice Deepak Mishra intervened to ask the Centre's counsel, Mohana, to submit affidavit as directed by the Bench in response to the plea. As the counsel pleaded for more time, an angry Justice Mishra asked the counsel to explain the reason for seeking an adjournment. When the counsel pleaded that she had no information except for a brief from her colleague to appear for the case, Justice
Mishra insisted that Centre's response must be placed within 15 minutes in front of the Bench. The counsel rushed out only to come back to tell the Bench that the response was cleared only this morning by the Joint Secretary concerned and the contents were not known at this juncture.
Justice Mishra remarked, “You are not doing your job. What did you do today. You should have mentioned this before the arguments began. A month ago, we asked you to file your response to TS plea. Don't you know the value of time? Without having any information you are seeking an adjournment.” “A serious petition like this one cannot be neglected by the Centre which was duty-bound to clarify its stand,” he said.
