PTI | | Posted by Yamini C S
The Karnataka authorities has fastened an expert price of ₹59.9 lakh a day for the staff of senior legal professionals, together with Mukul Rohatgi to combat the case pertaining to frame row with Maharashtra in Supreme Courtroom. A Regulation division order mentioned it has fastened the phrases and situations {and professional} price to the authorized staff to characterize Karnataka earlier than the Supreme Courtroom in an unique go well with (quantity 4/2004) filed by the federal government of Maharashtra in opposition to Karnataka on the border dispute.
As per the January 18 order, senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi will likely be paid ₹22 lakh per day for showing earlier than the apex court docket and ₹5.5 lakh per day for convention and different works. One other lawyer Shyam Divan will likely be paid ₹six lakh a day for showing earlier than the court docket, ₹1.5 lakh per day for preparation of the case and different works and ₹10 lakh for outstation visits per day.
The federal government will bear the bills on lodge services and enterprise class air journey. The Advocate Basic of Karnataka will likely be paid ₹three lakh a day for showing within the SC, ₹1.25 lakh per day for making ready circumstances and different works, ₹two lakh on outstation visits aside from bearing the lodge and enterprise class air journey expenditures.
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The state authorities has additionally employed senior lawyer Uday Holla, a former advocate normal of Karnataka, who will likely be paid ₹two lakh per day for showing within the apex court docket, ₹75,000 per day for preparation of the case, ₹1.5 lakh per day for settlement of pleadings and different works, and ₹1.5 lakh per day for outstation visits aside from lodge and journey bills.
The boundary row had intensified late final 12 months, with autos from both facet being focused, leaders from each the States weighing in, and pro-Kannada and Marathi activists being detained by police amid a tense ambiance in Belagavi. The border situation dates again to 1957 after the reorganisation of States on linguistic strains. Maharashtra laid declare to Belagavi, which was a part of the erstwhile Bombay Presidency, because it has a sizeable Marathi-speaking inhabitants. It additionally laid declare to over 800 Marathi-speaking villages that are at the moment a part of Karnataka.
Karnataka maintains the demarcation performed on linguistic strains as per the States Reorganisation Act and the 1967 Mahajan Fee Report as last. And, as an assertion that Belagavi is an integral a part of the State, Karnataka has constructed the ‘Suvarna Vidhana Soudha’, modelled on the ‘Vidhana Soudha’ right here.