NEW DELHI: As the Centre and concerned states failed to find a solution to end the blockade of roads at Delhi borders by farm unions protesting against the three agriculture laws, the Supreme Court on Monday decided to issue notice to farm organisations as pleaded by the Haryana government.
Solicitor general Tushar Mehta told a bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and M M Sundresh that an application has been filed by the state to implead 43 organisations in the petition filed by a Noida-based women for removal of road blockade on Delhi borders.
Mehta told the bench that the state government appointed a committee to hold talks with agitating farmers but they refused to participate.
The court had earlier asked the Centre to find a solution after holding that public roads cannot be blocked for a long period to cause inconvenience to the general public and there should be free flow of traffic. It had asked solicitor general Tushar Mehta to explore the solution in consultation with Uttar Pradesh and Haryana governments.
The court had earlier also said there cannot be continuing inconvenience for people for a long time by the agitators by blocking the roads and some arrangements had to be made so that people do not suffer.
The court was hearing a plea of a Noida-based woman who alleged that it took her more than two hours to commute due to the road block. She alleged in her petition that she was a single parent and it had become a nightmare to travel to Delhi. She alleged that agitation was being done to defame the government and the country.
The Supreme Court had last year ruled that authorities, in future, should not permit Shaheen Bagh-type protests involving blocking of roads and public spaces, and said that such expressions of dissent should be organised at designated places without causing inconvenience to the public at large.
