<p>The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a petition seeking compensation for damage to properties caused during the agitation in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu over sharing Cauvery water in September-October last.<br /><br /></p>.<p>A bench of Justices Dipak Misra and R Banumathi dismissed a PIL filed by Kanyakumari-resident P Shivashankar.<br /><br />“Since we are already hearing the civil appeals, there is peace in the area...we are not inclined to hear it,” the bench told advocate Reegan S Bell, representing the petitioner.<br />The court, however, said the question of law in the petition is kept open.<br /><br />The apex court had earlier on September 15 asked both the states not to allow any agitation over sharing of Cauvery river water.<br /><br />The petitioner had then sought direction to both the states to take immediate preventive steps to check violence and damage to private and public properties due to agitation.<br /><br />The court had also reminded both Karnataka and Tamil Nadu to keep in mind guidelines issued by a three-judge bench in 2009 in ‘Destruction of Public and Private Property Vs State of Andhra Pradesh’ case which, among others, mandated the states, if the agitation spreads, to submit a report suo motu to the apex court about action initiated. <br /></p>
<p>The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a petition seeking compensation for damage to properties caused during the agitation in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu over sharing Cauvery water in September-October last.<br /><br /></p>.<p>A bench of Justices Dipak Misra and R Banumathi dismissed a PIL filed by Kanyakumari-resident P Shivashankar.<br /><br />“Since we are already hearing the civil appeals, there is peace in the area...we are not inclined to hear it,” the bench told advocate Reegan S Bell, representing the petitioner.<br />The court, however, said the question of law in the petition is kept open.<br /><br />The apex court had earlier on September 15 asked both the states not to allow any agitation over sharing of Cauvery river water.<br /><br />The petitioner had then sought direction to both the states to take immediate preventive steps to check violence and damage to private and public properties due to agitation.<br /><br />The court had also reminded both Karnataka and Tamil Nadu to keep in mind guidelines issued by a three-judge bench in 2009 in ‘Destruction of Public and Private Property Vs State of Andhra Pradesh’ case which, among others, mandated the states, if the agitation spreads, to submit a report suo motu to the apex court about action initiated. <br /></p>
