Supreme Court Suspends Implementation Of Three Farm Laws

The Supreme Court has decided to suspend implementation of the three agriculture laws in a bid to end the stalemate between the government and farmers who have protesting for close to three months now in north Indian cold.

“There’s going to be a committee to resolve the issue,” Chief Justice of India SA Bobde said during the hearing. “We want to solve this problem. We want to know the ground situation. This is why we are forming the committee.”

The central government and farmer unions have had eight rounds of talks but failed to break the deadlock as protests at borders of Delhi continue. Protest sites outside New Delhi have turned into semi-permanent camps since the end of November. The protesting farmers even launched a tractor march.

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, however, said the farmers are being misled. “The misapprehension being spread is that land is being taken away. A farmer can enter into a contract only for the crop and not the land. Agriculture land is completely immune,” he said.

This is a developing story.