Border row: Govt fixes around Rs 60 lakh as fee/day for team fighting case in SC

The Karnataka government has fixed a professional fee of Rs 599 lakh a day for the team of senior lawyers including Mukul Rohatgi to fight the case pertaining to border row with Maharashtra in Supreme CourtA Law department order said it has fixed the terms and conditions and professional fee to the legal team to represent Karnataka before the Supreme Court in an original suit number 42004 filed by the government of Maharashtra against Karnataka on the border disputeAs per the January 18 order senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi will be paid Rs 22 lakh per day for appearing before the apex court and Rs 55 lakh per day for conference and other worksAnother lawyer Shyam Divan will be paid Rs six lakh a day for appearing before the court Rs 15 lakh per day for preparation of the case and other works and Rs 10 lakh for outstation visits per day The government will bear the expenses on hotel facilities and business class air travelAlso Read MahaKarnataka border row Sharad Pawar says situation worrisome time to take a standThe Advocate General of Karnataka will be paid Rs three lakh a day for appearing in the SC Rs 125 lakh per day for preparing cases and other works Rs two lakh on outstation visits apart from bearing the ehotel and business class air travelsThe state government has also hired senior lawyer Uday Holla a former advocate general of Karnataka who will be paid Rs two lakh per day for appearing in the apex court Rs 75000 per day for preparation of the case Rs 15 lakh per day for settlement of pleadings and other works and Rs 15 lakh per day for outstation visits apart from hotel and travel expensesThe boundary row had intensified late last year with vehicles from either side being targeted leaders from both the States weighing in and proKannada and Marathi activists being detained by police amid a tense atmosphere in BelagaviThe border issue dates back to 1957 after the reorganisation of States on linguistic lines Maharashtra laid claim to Belagavi which was part of the erstwhile Bombay Presidency as it has a sizeable Marathispeaking population It also laid claim to over 800 Marathispeaking villages which are currently part of KarnatakaKarnataka maintains the demarcation done on linguistic lines as per the States Reorganisation Act and the 1967 Mahajan Commission Report as finalAnd as an assertion that Belagavi is an integral part of the State Karnataka has built the Suvarna Vidhana Soudha modelled on the Vidhana Soudha hereThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever