October 19, 2016 6:58 PM

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SC reserves order on Cauvery dispute

The Supreme Court today reserved its order on maintainability of appeals filed by Karnataka,Tamil Nadu and Kerala against the 2007 award of the Cauvery Water Dispute Tribunal (CWDT).<br/><br/>A bench of Justices Dipak Misra, Amitava Roy and A M Khanwilkar said the court reserves the judgement and Interim order of October 18 will continue till further orders.<br/><br/>The bench asked the parties to file their written submissions by October 24 and said it would pass the order thereafter.<br/><br/>The Centre, through Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi, had raised a preliminary objection claiming that the CWDT award amounted to a final decree in the dispute and the apex court had no jurisdiction to hear appeals against the award of the tribunal.

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