India, Oct. 30 -- The Supreme Court on Friday appointed its former judge, justice Ranjana Prakash Desai, to mediate the high-stakes Krishna-Godavari (KG) basin gas migration dispute between the Centre and a Reliance Industries Limited (RIL)-led consortium, after being informed that settlement talks between the two sides had failed to yield a viable solution.

A bench, comprising Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M Pancholi, requested justice Desai to act as the sole mediator and take the assistance of two domain experts, one each proposed by the parties, to explore an amicable resolution to the long-running dispute over extraction of natural gas with state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (O...