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| Raining money for Cauvery lawyers |
| A sum of Rs 23 crore has been paid as fees to lawyers engaged over the past fifteen years.
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| INDIA
, 18-July-2007
0:46:50 AM |
| Farmers in Tamil Nadu are yet to get their share of Cauvery waters even after the tribunal's final award. But all these years it has been raining money for advocates.
A sum of Rs 23 crore has been paid as fees to lawyers engaged over the past fifteen years.
Seven of them have received between Rs 1-6 crore each. And a whopping Rs 2.3 crore have been spent just on their conferences at hotels.
A petition filed under the RTI act by a Chennai based educationist has brought this to light.
''Advocates too should have some social responsibility. They can make money outside, not from farmer issues,'' said Dr T D Naidu, petitioner.
Political analysts have raised some tough questions on the logic behind these payments.
In some cases junior lawyers have been highly paid and say the over all cost could have been drastically brought down.
''They could have engaged one senior lawyer and a group of lawyers to assist him. The bill would not have gone upto this much,'' said Cho Ramaswami, Political Analyst.
It appears that for successive governments it didn't matter whether water flowed in the Cauvery or not but public funds have always had a free flow in the name of the river.
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