The apex court on Monday had delivered the verdict on Karnataka’s plea to reduce the amount of water to be released from the Cauvery river to Tamil Nadu.
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Bengaluru was placed under curfew after deadly violence erupted over the long-running dispute.
One person was killed and another injured in the firing.
Siddaramaiah said he has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to intervene in the matter.
“This dispute can only be solved within the legal ambit”.
The Karnataka government today made a decision to obey the Supreme Court’s modified order which asked it to release 12,000 cusecs of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu till September 20, though it said “this order is the most hard to follow”.
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has chose to personally meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and seek his intervention in defusing the Cauvery crisis that has erupted between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.
Earlier Monday, protesters in Tamil Nadu vandalized a hotel in the city of Chennai owned by people from Karnataka, triggering violent protests in both states. Police are conducting combing operations in several sensitive areas and dispersing assembled crowds.
“Releasing water, following the Supreme Court directives after hearing our modification petition, is a very hard proposition”. The fresh deployment came after Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday spoke to the chief ministers of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu and assured Central assistance to ensure security.
Modi said the entire episode is “distressful”. Breaking the law is not a viable alternative.
Prime Minister Modi said the violence and arson seen in the last two days is only causing loss to the poor and to the nation’s property.
“The people in Karnataka who set KPN buses on fire weren’t ordinary people like you and me”.
“We have lifted curfew from all the 16 police station limits in the city’s northwest and southwest suburbs as the situation is under control and normalcy has returned”, Bengaluru Police Commissioner N.S. Megharikh told the media.
The apex court bench was critical of the language used in the fresh plea of Karnataka seeking to keep in abeyance the September 5 order asking it to release 15,000 cusecs water per day to Tamil Nadu.
Vehicles with Tamil Nadu registration plates have been attacked and protesters have blocked roads by burning tyres and torching effigies of politicians.
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Balaji suggested the governments of Tamil Nadu and Karntataka to arrest the “madmen” perpetrating violence in both states. “We will resume all deliveries at the earliest”, said Amazon, one of India’s biggest e-commerce companies.
