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Supreme Court adjourns hearing of T.N. suit in Cauvery case

By Our Legal Correspondent

NEW DELHI April 15. The Supreme Court today adjourned by two weeks further hearing in the suit filed by the Tamil Nadu Government (in September last) for a direction to Karnataka to comply with the interim orders of the Cauvery Tribunal and also an interim direction to release one tmc ft of water daily to Tamil Nadu.

A three-Judge Bench comprising the Chief Justice S.P. Bharucha, Justice Shivaraj V. Patil and Justice H.K. Sema adjourned the hearing on the request for counsel for Tamil Nadu, which is yet to file its reply to the response filed by Karnataka and the Centre seeking dismissal of the suit.

In its reply, Karnataka submitted that Tamil Nadu had sufficient storage at Mettur to meet its commitments, although it had illegally increased kuruvai rice cultivation from 1.27 lakh acres in 1991 to 3.2 lakh acres this year. Also, the reservoir had the benefit of 256 tmc ft of water during the current year which was more than what was stipulated by the Tribunal even in a normal year.

The Centre submitted that the Cauvery River Authority (CRA) under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee met on October 10, 2001 and took note of the drought conditions in both Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.

The Authority decided to work out an acceptable formula for sharing the distress and requested the States to put forward their specific suggestions for consideration.

The Centre sought dismissal of the suit with a direction to Tamil Nadu to cooperate with the CRA in formulating the `distress sharing formula' for adoption by the Monitoring Committee and the CRA in the implementation of the Tribunal's interim and clarificatory orders.

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