The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to interfere with the order of the Cauvery Water Management Authority that directed the State of Karnataka to release 5000 cusecs of water at Biligundlu for 15 days. Background The Tamil Nadu government had approached the Supreme Court on August 14, 2023 seeking its intervention in compelling Karnataka to promptly release 24,000 cubic feet …
The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to intervene either in favour of Karnataka or Tamil Nadu in the Cauvery water dispute, instead it banked on the combined expertise of the Cauvery Water Regulation Committee and the Cauvery Water Management Authority to manage the water sharing between the two neighbouring States. Senior advocates Mukul Rohatgi and G. Umapathy, for Tamil Nadu, …
