State of Tamil Nadu Represented by the Secretary to Government Public Works Department v. Siddaramaiah, Chief Minister, Government of Karnakata & Ors. (2018 INSC 154)

Court: Supreme Court of India
Decided: 16 February 2018
Bench: Dipak Misraauthor
Result: Contempt petition closed.

Headnote

STATE OF TAMIL NADU REPRESENTED BY THE

SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT PUBLIC WORKS

DEPARTMENT

SIDDARAMAIAH, CHIEF MINISTER, GOVERNMENT OF

KARNAKATA & ORS.

(Contempt Petition (Civil) No. 225 of 2013 In Civil Appeal No.2456 of 2007)

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

[DIPAK MISRA CJI, AMITAVA ROY AND

A. M. KHANWILKAR, JJ.]

Inter-State Water Disputes:

Water dispute between States of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala and Union Territory of Puducherry – In respect of waters of river Cauvery – Disposed of by Supreme Court in Civil Appeal No. 2456 of 2007 – Contempt Petition by State of Tamil Nadu against the Chief Minister of Karnataka and others – Held: Contempt petition closed in view of judgment passed in Civil Appeal No. 2456 of 2007.

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Judgment

DIPAK MISRA, CJI As we have disposed of Civil Appeal No. 2456 of 2007, we do not intend to proceed with the Contempt Petition against the respondents. It stands closed accordingly.

Case details

Arising from

CIVIL ORIGINAL JURISDICTION : Contempt Petition (Civil) No. 225 OF 2013 IN Civil Appeal No. 2456 of 2007 From the Judgment and Order dated 05.02.2007 of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal at New Delhi under Section 5(2) of the Inter-State Water Disputes Act, 1956.

Appearances

Ranjit Kumar, S.G., Madhusudan R. Naik, Adv. Gen., Fali S. Nariman, S.S. Javali, Jaideep Gupta, Shekhar Naphade, A. S. Nambiar, Rakesh Dwivedi, Subramonium Prasad, Sr. Advs., Mohan V. Katarki, S. C. Sharma, Brijesh Kalappa, R.S. Ravi, V. N. Raghupathy, J. M. Gangadhar, Ranvir Singh, Abdul Azeem Kalebudde, G. Prakash, Jishnu M. L., Mrs. Priyanka Prakash, Mrs. Beena Prakash, Vijay Shankar, Kunal Chattarjee, Saurabh Gupta, G. Umapathy, C. Paramasivam, K.V. Vijayakumar, B. Balaji, S. Wasim A. Qadri, Mrs. Madhavi Diwan, Ajay Sharma, Ms. Snidha Mehra, Hemant Arya, Ms. Saudamini Sharma, Ms. Kirti Dua, Ms. Somya Rathore, Sumit, D. S. Mahra, M. K. Maroria, R. Nedumaran, V.G. Pragasam, S. Prabu Ramasubramanian, P. K. Manohar, Ms. Shantha Vasudevan, Manu Sundaram, Ramesh Babu M. R., Rajesh Mahale, B. Balaji, A. S. Bhasme, Ms. Aparna Bhat, Ms. Supreeta Sharanagouda,, Advs. for the appearing parties.

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