New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday disposed of as infructuous a petition filed by Karnataka seeking review of the direction issued in September to the Centre to set up the Cauvery Management Board and to release 6,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu.
The court had asked the Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Union Territory of Puducherry to nominate their representatives to the CMB, but Karnataka did not comply, and instead filed a review petition.
Disposing of the petition, a Bench of Justices Dipak Misra and Uday Lalit in a brief order said the situation has changed after the order was passed. Subsequent orders were passed in which setting up of the Cauvery Management Board had been modified. The direction to release water had also been modified.
Further the court had held as maintainable the appeals challenging the final award of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal and they are pending adjudication.
