The Supreme Court today (on August 22), in a matter related to the blockade on the national highway at the Shambhu border, said that it will pass an order concerning the constitution of a Committee, to negotiate with the protesting farmers, within a week.

To this effect, the Bench of Justices Surya Kant, Dipankar Datta and Ujjal Bhuyan suggested the States of Punjab and Haryana to submit proposed issues that will be the subject matter of reference for the Committee. The prescribed timeline for the same is three days. In the order, the Court also clarified that the reference to the committee will be a wider mandate so that the issues which are time and again causing law and order problems can be amicably resolved in a fair and just manner.