India, June 10 -- Days after the Supreme Court directed the Himachal Pradesh government to urgently consider release of 137 cusecs of surplus drinking water to Delhi, the Upper Yamuna River Board (UYRB) informed the top court on Monday that there is no way to measure compliance of the order by Himachal, which neither has any storage facility to measure the additional flow nor any data is available to ascertain the surplus water released by the state after meeting its requirements.

A vacation bench of the Supreme Court headed by justice PK Mishra adjourned the hearing to June 12 as a copy of the UYRB report was not before it. Even the Haryana government, which is party to the proceeding, claimed to have submitted a document to the court. ...