Bengaluru/New Delhi: The Supreme Court will hear the Cauvery water dispute case on Tuesday, October 18.
The new bench would comprise justices Dipak Misra, Amitava Roy and AM Khanwilkar and will take up all the issues arising out of the Cauvery water dispute, an age-old dispute related to the sharing of Cauvery water between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.
The Cauvery Supervisory Committee (CSC), which visited the Cauvery basin area of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu for assessing the ground situation, on Monday submitted its report to the Supreme Court. The committee, however, did not make any recommendations with regard to the quantum of water to be released to Tamil Nadu by Karnataka.
Earlier, the court had directed Karnataka to release 2,000 cusecs of Cauvery water per day to Tamil Nadu from October 7 to 18, while deferring its order asking the Centre to set up the Cauvery Water Management Board till it finally decided on appeals relating to the dispute. Instead, the top court had agreed to the suggestion that a Supervisory Committee, comprising officials and technical experts from the Centre, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala and Puducherry, be set up to inspect the Cauvery basin for assessing the ground realities. The committee was asked by the bench to file its report by October 17.
