New Delhi/IBNS, June 28 -- India has "categorically" rejected a "supplemental award" by an "illegal" Court of Arbitration, which has been supposedly set up over the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty.

Calling the self-appointed panel unlawful and in "brazen violation" of the treaty itself, India's Ministry of External Affairs trashed its claims and "concerns".

The statement said India has never recognised the existence in law of this so-called Court of Arbitration, and its position has all along been that the constitution of this so-called arbitral body is in itself a serious breach of the Indus Waters Treaty.

"Consequently any proceedings before this forum and any award or decision taken by it are also for that reason illegal and per se void," ...