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Calcutta High Court strikes down Singur land act
Friday June 22, 2012 12:10:44 PM,
IANS
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Kolkata: In a major
setback to West Bengal's Mamata Banerjee government, the Calcutta
High Court Friday struck down the Singur Land Rehabilitation and
Development Act, 2011, as unconstitutional and void. The court
favoured the Tata Motors' appeal against a trial court order which
upheld the act, and gave the West Bengal government two months to
appeal before the Supreme Court.
The division bench of Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose and Justice
Mrinal Kanti Chaudhuri set aside the single bench judgment of the
court, which had held the Singur Land Rehabilitation And
Development Act, 2011, passed by the Mamata Banerjee government as
constitutional and valid.
Automobile giant Tata Motors had moved the division bench against
the Calcutta High Court's Justice I.P. Mukerji's Sep 28 judgment.
According to the division bench, sections of compensation in the
Singur act were in conflict with the Land Acquisition Act, 1894.
It also said the legislation had been enacted without obtaining
the assent of the president.
The court has granted a two-month suspension on the order but
barred the state from disbursing reclaimed land in the interim
period.
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