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Dallewal’s fast unto death: Supreme Court to take up contempt plea against Punjab Chief Secretary, DGP

It will also take up a plea filed on behalf of Dallewal, seeking a direction to the Centre to implement a proposal, including a legal guarantee of MSP on crops
Farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal. File photo
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Amid growing concern over the health of farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal —  who has been on fast onto death since November 26, 2024 to press for farmers’ demands — the Supreme Court will take the matter on Wednesday.

A bench of Justice Surya Kant and Justice N Kotiswar Singh is scheduled to take up a petition challenging Punjab and Haryana High Court’s order to remove barricades erected by police and a contempt petition against Punjab Chief Secretary and DGP.

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It will also take up a plea filed on behalf of Dallewal, seeking a direction to the Centre to implement a proposal, including a legal guarantee of MSP on crops. This proposal was made to protesting farmers in 2021, following the repeal of the farm laws.

The Supreme Court had on January 6 adjourned the hearing after being told that Dallewal has agreed to meet Justice (Retd) Nawab Singh-led High-Powered Committee set up by the top court.

“Let us hope something positive emerges out of it,” the bench had said after senior counsel Kapil Sibal informed it on behalf of the Punjab Government that the protesting farmers led by Dallewal have agreed to meet during the day the Justice Nawab Singh committee mandated to find an amicable solution.

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It had asked the committee to inform it of the outcome of the meeting. The top court had wondered why the Centre couldn’t say its doors were open and it would consider the genuine grievances of farmers protesting over demands, including the legal guarantee of MSP for crops.

Making it clear that it wanted Dallewal to be shifted to a make-shift hospital set up near the protest site, the Supreme Court had on December 20 left it to the Punjab Government authorities to take a call on the issue.

As Dallewal continued to refuse medical help, top court had on January 2 taken strong exception to a “deliberate attempt” to create an impression that it wanted him to break his fast.

“There is a deliberate attempt in the media by your state government officers to give an impression that the court is pressuring him to break the fast. Our direction was not to break his fast. We only said that let his health be taken care of and he can continue his peaceful protest even when he is hospitalised. You have to persuade him from this angle,” it had told Punjab Advocate General Gurminder Singh.

“Your attitude is that there should be no conciliation. That is the whole problem,” Justice Kant told Singh, who sought to clarify that the Punjab Government was all for conciliation. It had also questioned the Centre for not making a statement that it would consider genuine demands of protesting farmers.

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