The Court has been hearing a batch of petitions, including some which want the farmers moved since they were blockading the capital. The bench of Chief Justice S.A. Bobde, Justices A.S.Bopanna and V. Ramasubramanian had harsh words for the government's inability to address the farmers' concerns.
The petitioner contended that Supreme Court as per its earlier order of Dec 16th and Dec 17th had allowed the farmers to continue with the protest in non-violent manner and the same should not result in damage to the life and property of other citizens.
The bench of Chief Justice S.A. Bobde, Justices A.S. Bopanna and V. Ramasubramanian said it would hear on Monday all the pleas challenging the new farm laws as also the ones raising issues related to the ongoing farmers protest.
The Supreme Court has said that it will examine the constitutionality of the Uttar Pradesh ordinance against conversion and the Uttarakhand law against alleged love jihad but has refused to stay the two statutes.
In his petition, ML Sharma had alleged that the 1954 Amendment Act of the Constitution, which had included Agriculture in the Concurrent List of the Constitution, was passed in an improper manner.