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'How could state block highway,' SC asks Haryana govt

By Jhanak Sharma      13 July, 2024 09:51 AM      0 Comments
How could state block highway SC asks Haryana govt

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday asked how a state government could block a highway when its duty is to regulate traffic.

The apex court told the Haryana government to clear the barricading at Shambhu border near Ambala, saying, farmers, protesting over there are also citizens of the country.

The farmers have been camping at the border since February, this year, as they wanted to march to Delhi demanding a guarantee for MSP among others.

Haryana government's counsel contended before a bench of Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan that the state government is preparing to challenge the Punjab and Haryana High Court order passed on July 10, directing it to open the highway within seven days, in the apex court.

"How can a state block a highway? It has a duty to regulate traffic. We are saying open it, but regulate," the bench asked the counsel.

The court cited difficulties faced by people while travelling through the road.

"Why do you want to challenge the High Court's order? Farmers are also citizens of this country, the bench further asked the counsel.

The bench told the states counsel to give food and good medical care to them.

They will come, raise slogans and go back. I think you don't commute by road, the bench told the counsel, who said he travelled by road.

The bench asked the state government to file an affidavit on the subsequent developments in the pending matter.

The Haryana government challenged March 7 order by the Punjab and Haryana High Court to set up a committee headed by a former High Court judge to probe farmer Shubhkaran Singh's death during a clash between the protesting farmers and Haryana security personnel in February.

In February, the Haryana government had set up barricades on the Ambala-New Delhi National highway after the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (non-political) and the Kisan Mazdoor Morcha announced that farmers would march to Delhi in support of various demands, including a legal guarantee of minimum support price (MSP) for crops.

The court had in April declined to stay the order passed by the High Court.

On July 10, the High Court directed the Haryana government to clear within a week the barricading at the Shambhu border.



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