Final hearing in Cauvery case on February 7, says Supreme Court

A bench of Justices Dipak Misra, Amitava Roy and AM Khanwilkar reiterated its October 18, 2016 order and said that it will remain effective till further orders and fixed the pleas on the vexatious dispute for final hearing on February 7. On October 18, the apex court had directed Karnataka to keep releasing 2,000 cusecs of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu till further orders. The apex court had on December 9 upheld the maintainability of appeals filed by the riparian states, saying it has the ‘jurisdiction to decide the parameters, scope, authority and jurisdiction of the tribunal’. The court had earlier said that it would first go into the issue of maintainability of appeals filed by Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala against the award of tribunal and then hear arguments on the report filed by Supervisory Committee formed to assess the ground realities in the Cauvery basin region.