PILs challenging Singur land deal rejected
The Calcutta High Court on Friday rejected all petitions challenging the acquisition of land at Singur for the Tata Motors’ small car plant.
By INDIATIMES NEWS NETWORK |
NEW DELHI: The Calcutta High Court on Friday rejected all petitions challenging the acquisition of land at Singur for the Tata Motors’ small car plant.
The High Court said that there are no illegalities in the land acquisition.
The verdict comes a week after Ratan Tata unveiled the people's car, Nano at an auto expo in New Delhi.
Earlier, petitioner Joydeep Mukherjee had moved the writ petition on February 9, 2007 challenging acquisition of the 997.11 acre at Singur in Hooghly district, about 40 km from the metropolis.
Mukherjee and 10 other individuals and associations, who joined the case as added petitioners, claimed the land had been acquired without following the provisions of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 and the Land Acquisition (Companies) Rules, 1963.
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However, the state government told the court that it had gone by the rulebook in acquiring land at Singur for the Tata motors plant as also for ancillary industries.Download
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