Sources from New Delhi have added that the Supreme Court on Wednesday has agreed to hear on Thursday a plea seeking direction to the Centre, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka to maintain law and order in these two states witnessing violent protests in the wake of a row over distribution of Cauvery water.
The senior advocate Adish Aggarwala, who is appearing for P Shivakumar, has sought urgent hearing of the PIL and has said the states, be directed to take prompt action against the protesters to maintain law and order and provide security to private and public properties and the citizens of both the states.
Meanwhile Mr. Shivakumar, who has claimed to be a social activist, has also sought a direction that the leaders of the protest be held accountable for the damage caused to the properties and be asked to pay up for them and on September 12th the apex court has modified its earlier order on sharing of Cauvery water and directed Karnataka to release 12,000 cusecs instead of 15,000 cusecs per day till September 20th to Tamil Nadu.
The apex court bench was critical of the language used in the fresh plea of Karnataka seeking to keep in abeyance the September 5th order asking it to release 15,000 cusecs water per day to Tamil Nadu and the court asked the executives to ensure compliance.
