Bengaluru/New Delhi: A fresh bench of three judges has been constituted by the apex court to hear the dispute related to the sharing of Cauvery water between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.

The new bench would comprise justices Dipak Misra, Amitava Roy and A M Khanwilkar and will take up all the issues arising out of the Cauvery water dispute on October 18.

Earlier, on October 4, a bench comprising justices Dipak Misra and U U Lalit had agreed to the counsel representing both the sides that the matter had to be heard by a three-judge bench.

The bench was told during the last hearing that when the appeals were filed against the order of the Cauvery Water Dispute Tribunal, it was decided that the matter would be heard by a three-judge bench.

(Inputs from DHNS)