'You Made A Law Without Enough Consultation' : Supreme Court's Key Observations On Farm Laws, Farmers Protests
Live LawThe Supreme Court on Monday made strong oral observations criticizing the Central Government for its handling of the farmers protests.A bench comprising Chief Justice of India SA Bobde, Justices V Ramasubramanian and AS Bopanna was hearing a batch of petitions which seek the removal of the protesting farmers near Delhi borders and also another set of petitions challenging the contentious. The Supreme Court on Monday made strong oral observations criticizing the Central Government for its handling of the farmers protests. When Senior Advocate Harish Salve submitted that the Court should also stop the protests if it was staying the implementation of the farm laws, the CJI said : "Court will not pass an order that citizens should not protest". Senior Advocate Dushyant Dave, appearing for a farmers union, submitted that the old people came to the protest site from their villages on their own as "their very existence was threatened by the laws".