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Singur setback for Tata Motors after Supreme Court judgement

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The Supreme Court on Wednesday quashed the agreement between West Bengal government and Tata Motors, that led to 1,000 acres of farm land in Bengal’s Singur being allotted to Tata Nano factory.

Calling it “bad in law,” the court turned over the earlier verdict given by Calcutta High Court which had given the land to Tata’s. The court has also directed the government to give possession of the land to farmers within 12 weeks and has also ruled that the “no compensation taken by farmers from the government will be returned” because they had been deprived of their livelihood for the last ten years.

The bench of Justice V Gopala Gowda and Justice Arun Mishra pronounced the judgment on a batch of petitions which were filed in 2008 by a number of people aggrieved by the land acquisition which was undertaken by the then Left government. Acquired, by the previous Left government in 2006, the project faced massive protests led by Mamata Banerjee (the then opposition leader) and the business conglomerate had to move their operations to Gujarat.

“Land can’t be acquired at the instance of a private company. Exercise of power at the instance of a private company is a colourable exercise and amounts to fraud. The procedure of enquiry with farmers was not followed,” said the court.
The apex court rapped the government and Tata Motors for the “illegal manner in which land was acquired in Singur, saying that the entire exercise appeared to be a “farce and an eye wash”, which was “shocking”.

The Tatas had told the court that the company would not give up the land and would use it for other purposes.

 

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