In the latest developments that surface in the Singur case, Tata Motors, which was allotted the land for its proposed Nano car plant back then in Singur, West Bengal, had a complicated time in the Supreme Court to justify its hold for reclaiming it, on Thursday.
The bench comprising of Justices V Gopala Gowda and Arun Mishra demanded a detailed explanation in the case, where over 400 acres of land had been allotted to company, without once referring to the sections 4 and 5 of the Land Acquisition Act that ‘mandate public notice for receiving objections’. The bench further observed and stated that the entire exercise had been carried out by clearly ‘bulldozing the law’.
Before taking any step further, it was said that there remained many ‘grey areas’ which needed to be given befitting answers, one of them being the farmers’ issues, and the company has to first address those questions first.
West Bengal state government had already moved the apex court against the high court decision that included 400 acres of land to be given to the company for manufacturing it’s product. Tata Motors later shifted their entire plant to Gujarat.
Source: NDTV.
(File photograph showing the situation back in 2010-11)
