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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Singur Tata plant: Supreme Court quashes acquisition, orders Bengal govt to return land in 12 weeks

Singur Tata plant: Supreme Court quashes acquisition, orders Bengal govt to return land in 12 weeks

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published Published on Aug 31, 2016   modified Modified on Aug 31, 2016
-The Indian Express

Farmers who got compensation from the govt will not return it because they were deprived of their livelihood for the last ten years, the court said.

New Delhi:
The Supreme Court Wednesday quashed the land acquisition in West Bengal’s Singur by the Buddhadeb Bhattacharya-led CPM government in 2006 for allotting it to Tata to set up its Nano car factory. The court held that the acquisition could not be said to be for a “public purpose” and hence the land should be remitted back to farmers within 12 weeks.

Farmers who got compensation from the govt will not return it because they were deprived of their livelihood for the last ten years, the court said.

The court order signifies a major victory for Mamta Banerjee and the TMC, which had led the protest against allocation of land for the Tata factory.

While setting aside the Calcutta High Court order of upholding the acquisition process, the Supreme Court bench ruled that the acquisition was bad in law on several grounds and that acquiring the land from the farmers for giving it to a company for a car plant could not come under the ambit of “public purpose”.

Tata Motors moved the Calcutta High Court challenging the law. The acquisition of the land was upheld by a trial court and the law passed by the Trinamool Congress-led state government was declared unconstitutional on appeal.

In the wake of the controversy, Tata had in 2008 began its process of shifting its Nano factory to Gujarat and the car is now manufactured in Sanand in Gujarat.

(With inputs from ANI)


The Indian Express, 31 August, 2016, http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/singur-tata-plant-sc-strikes-down-land-acquisition-orders-govt-to-return-land-in-12-weeks-west-bengal-gover


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