Farm laws: Supreme irony

Apex court offers a face-saver

The Supreme Court has offered the government and farm leaders a face-saving solution to the eyeball-to-eyeball stand-off over three farm laws that overhauled, among other things, decades-old agri-marketing laws. On Monday, the three-judge Bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde, hearing a batch of petitions on the validity of these laws, suggested that the Centre would do well to stay the implementation of these laws till a committee was constituted by the court to discuss the issue — otherwise the court would do so for it. Last month, the Bench indicated it would set up a committee with the