State Of Tamil NADU Represented BY The Secretary TO Government Public Works Department v. Siddaramaiah, Chief Minister, Government Of Karnakata & Ors. (2018) — Supreme Court judgment

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STATE OF KARNATAKA BY5ITS CHIEF [2018] S.C.R. 1125SECRETARY v. STATE 1125 OF T. N. BY ITS CHIEF SECRETARY [DIPAK MISRA, CJI] STATE OF TAMIL NADU REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT v. SIDDARAMAIAH, CHIEF MINISTER, GOVERNMENT OF KARNAKATA & ORS.

(Contempt Petition (Civil) No. 225 of 2013 In Civil Appeal No.2456 of 2007) FEBRUARY 16, 2018

[DIPAK MISRA CJI, AMITAVA ROY AND A. M. KHANWILKAR, JJ.] Inter-State Water Disputes: Water dispute between States of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala and Union Territory of Puducherry – In respect of waters of river Cauvery – Disposed of by Supreme Court in Civil Appeal No. 2456 of 2007 – Contempt Petition by State of Tamil Nadu against the Chief Minister of Karnataka and others – Held: Contempt petition closed in view of judgment passed in Civil Appeal No. 2456 of 2007.

Judgment

CIVIL ORIGINAL JURISDICTION : Contempt Petition (Civil) No. 225 OF 2013 IN Civil Appeal No. 2456 of 2007

From the Judgment and Order dated 05.02.2007 of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal at New Delhi under Section 5(2) of the InterState Water Disputes Act, 1956. Ranjit Kumar, S.G., Madhusudan R. Naik, Adv. Gen., Fali S. Nariman, S.S. Javali, Jaideep Gupta, Shekhar Naphade, A. S. Nambiar, Rakesh Dwivedi, Subramonium Prasad, Sr. Advs., Mohan V. Katarki, S. C. Sharma, Brijesh Kalappa, R.S. Ravi, V. N. Raghupathy, J. M. Gangadhar, Ranvir Singh, Abdul Azeem Kalebudde, G. Prakash, Jishnu M. L., Mrs. Priyanka Prakash, Mrs. Beena Prakash, Vijay Shankar,

Kunal Chattarjee, Saurabh Gupta, G. Umapathy, C. Paramasivam, K.V. Vijayakumar, B. Balaji, S. Wasim A. Qadri, Mrs. Madhavi Diwan, Ajay Sharma, Ms. Snidha Mehra, Hemant Arya, Ms. Saudamini Sharma, Ms. Kirti Dua, Ms. Somya Rathore, Sumit, D. S. Mahra, M. K. Maroria, R. Nedumaran, V.G. Pragasam, S. Prabu Ramasubramanian, P. K. Manohar, Ms. Shantha Vasudevan, Manu Sundaram, Ramesh Babu M. R., Rajesh Mahale, B. Balaji, A. S. Bhasme, Ms. Aparna Bhat, Ms. Supreeta Sharanagouda,, Advs. for the appearing parties. The Judgment of the Court was delivered by

DIPAK MISRA, CJI As we have disposed of Civil Appeal No. 2456 of 2007, we do not intend to proceed with the Contempt Petition against the respondents. It stands closed accordingly.

Kalpana K. Tripathy

Contempt petition closed.

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