Farm laws hearing in SC: What the CJI said while putting agri laws on hold

New Delhi:  Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed the implementation of three agri laws until further orders and also formed a committee to hold talks talks with farmers over the Acts.

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Supreme Court forms a committee to hold talks

Supreme Court stays the implementation of three farms laws until further orders

Farm laws: If there is infiltration by a banned organisation & somebody is making an allegation here before us, you have to confirm it. File an affidavit by tomorrow: CJI to Attorney General We will file an affidavit in this regard and place the IB records, says Attorney General

Farm laws: There is an application before us which says that there is a banned organisation which is helping this protest. Can the Attorney General accept or deny it?, says CJI

Attorney General KK Venugopal says we have said that Khalistanis have infiltrated into the protests.

Farm laws: Sr advocates Dushyant Dave, HS Phoolka, Colin Gonsalves, who represents 400 farmers’ bodies, haven’t joined SC’s proceedings today. They were supposed to consult the farmers on formation of a committee and come back today, says senior advocate Harish Salve before SC

“This is not politics. There is a difference between politics and judiciary and you will have to cooperate”, says SC to farmer unions

SC seeks cooperation of farmers’ unions, says “those who genuinely want resolution, will go to the committee” on farm laws

SC says it has power to suspend the legislation in order to solve the problem

No power can prevent us from making committee to resolve the impasse on new farm laws, says SC

Farm laws: Advocate ML Sharma says, the farmers are saying many persons came for discussions, but the main person, the Prime Minister did not come. We cannot ask the Prime Minister to go. He is not a party in the case, says CJI.

Farm laws: We are forming a committee so that we have a clearer picture. We don’t want to hear arguments that farmers will not go to the committee. We are looking to solve the problem. If you (farmers) want to agitate indefinitely, you can do so, says CJI

Farm laws: This committee will be for us. All of you people who are expected to solve the issue will go before this committee. It will not pass an order or punish you, it will only submit a report to us, says CJI

Farm laws: We’re concerned about validity of the laws &also about protecting life &property of citizens affected by protests. We are trying to solve the problem in accordance with the powers we have. One of the powers we’ve is to suspend the legislation&make a committee, says CJI

Advocate ML Sharma, who filed a plea challenging the farm laws, tells the court that farmers have said they will not appear before any committee to be constituted by the court.