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'Our doors always open,' SC to protesting farmers

By Jhanak Sharma      19 December, 2024 03:31 AM      0 Comments
'Our doors always open,' SC to protesting farmers

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday said its doors are always open for the farmers if they are disinclined to engage with a court-appointed high-powered committee to resolve the issues.

SC Reaffirms Open-Door Policy for Farmers Amid Protests

The farmers have been organising a sit since February 13, 2024 at Shambhu border of Punjab and Haryana over their various demands including legal guarantee for minimum support price for their produces.

Taking up a matter related to reopening the border, a bench of Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan also expressed concern over the health of farmers leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal who has been on fast unto death.

Court Urges Punjab Government to Ensure Farmers’ Health and Safety

The court also told the Punjab government that it would be blamed if anything untoward happened to the The court noted as per doctor's advise, he required immediate hospitalisation.

Punjab's Advocate General Gurminder Singh submitted that the farmers were disinclined to discuss the committee appointed by the court.

On this, the bench said, "We clarify that court's doors are always open, any suggestion or demand charter by the farmers directly or through their authorised representative can be brought on record. It will be given due consideration alongwith discussion with all stakeholders."

Singh also said Dallewal, who has been on fast for last 20 days, has refused medical tests, his vitals are fine but the doctors suggested for his admission.

On this, the bench told Singh, "There can be a difference of opinion but he needs to be healthy to agitate. As an elected government and a constitutional organ, you cannot let anything happen to him."

The bench said it would try to impress upon all the stakeholders that something should be done.

"But let it not be a pre-condition to save the life of Dallewal," the bench said.

The court fixed the matter for consideration on Thursday.

On December 13, the Supreme Court had asked the court-appointed high-powered panel to engage with protesting farmers to persuade them to either temporarily suspend their protest or relocate it from the highway along the Punjab-Haryana border, where they organised sit in since February 13.

The court had opined that the farmers have a constitutional right to protest, which can be conducted peacefully on the lines of “Gandhian philosophy”.

The bench had then instructed representatives from both the Centre and the Punjab government to urgently meet Dallewal, provide medical aid, and convince him to end his strike.

Also Read -  SC Urges Farmers to Clear Highways, Calls for Peaceful Protest

On September 2, the Supreme Court had set up a high-powered panel headed by Justice Nawab Singh, a former Punjab and Haryana High Court's judge, to conduct negotiations with the farmers, holding a sit-in at Shambhu border since February 13 over their various demands including legal guarantee for minimum support price for their produce.

Apart from a legal guarantee for MSP, the farmers demanded implementation of the Swaminathan Commission's recommendations, pension for farmers and farm labourers, farm debt waiver, reinstatement of the Land Acquisition Act, 2013 and compensation to the families of farmers who died during a previous agitation in 2020-21.



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