{"id":330171,"date":"2021-01-11T08:29:23","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T08:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=330171"},"modified":"2021-01-11T08:29:23","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T08:29:23","slug":"hold-farm-laws-or-we-will-do-it-supreme-court-to-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/hold-farm-laws-or-we-will-do-it-supreme-court-to-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Hold farm laws or we will do it: Supreme Court to Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-305446 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court.jpg 660w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court-633x420.jpg 633w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>The Supreme Court on Monday said that it was extremely disappointed with the way the farmers&#8217; protest was handled by the government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Hearing a batch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the three farm laws, the top court asked the Centre if the legislations can be put on hold for some time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">We don&#8217;t know what negotiations are going on? Can the farm laws be put on hold for some time?, asked the bench headed by Chief Justice SA Bobde.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Court said that if the Centre does not want to stay the implementation of the three laws, it will do so.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe will stay implementation of laws\u2026&#8230;You can carry on the protest. But the question is whether the protest should be held at the same site,\u201d said CJI.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The court said, \u201csome people have committed suicide, old people and women are a part of the agitation. What is happening?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cEach one of us will be responsible if something goes wrong. We don&#8217;t want anybody&#8217;s blood on our hands,\u201d CJI said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe do not think the Centre is handling this issue correctly. We have to take some action today. This is a very serious matter,\u201d the court said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The CJI pointed out that there is not a single petition before the top court which says that the farm laws are good.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Several farmers have been protesting since November 26 at various border points of Delhi against Centre\u2019s farm laws.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Monday said that it was extremely disappointed with the way the farmers&#8217; protest was handled by the government. Hearing a batch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the three farm laws, the top court asked the Centre if the legislations can be put on hold for some time. We don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":305446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[13493,134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330172,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330171\/revisions\/330172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}