The Calcutta High Court today granted a stay on distribution of land alloted to vendors at Singur beside the Tata Motors' Nano project plot by the West Bengal government.
The Calcutta High Court today granted a stay on distribution of land alloted to vendors at Singur beside the Tata Motors' Nano project plot by the West Bengal government.
A division bench, comprising Justice PC Ghosh and Justice MK Chowdhury, stayed distribution of the 290 acres of land allotted to 57 vendors of car components till disposal of the cases challenging the vesting of the land by the government.
Of the 57 vendors, 31 component manufacturers had moved the court seeking a stay on distribution of the land alloted to them.
The bench had earlier stayed distribution of 545 acres of land leased to Tata Motors Ltd (TML) on an application by the auto maker, which has appealed against the single bench order upholding the vesting of the Singur land leased to it.
The land leased to Tata Motors Ltd was vested by the WB government vide the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act 2011, along with the total 997 acres of land acquired by the state in 2006 for the Singur Nano car project.
TML had left Singur for Sanand in Gujarat citing law and order issues in October, 2008.
Justice IP Mukerji had on September 28 upheld the vesting of the land by the state government vide the Singur Act rejecting the challenge of its constitutionality by TML.
Submitting for TML on its appeal, senior counsel S Pal stated that the principle of compensation has not been specified in the Singur Act, thus making the Act flawed.
He further submitted that the trial court had in its order directed incorporation of certain points from the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 into the present Act made by the state government with regard to compensation to be paid to TML.
Pal contended that the court can only interpret the law on its constitutionality and cannot rewrite the law which he alleged had been done by incorporation of the points.
He further claimed that the state had discriminated TML and hence, fundamental right under Article 14 (Equality) of the Constitution had been violated.
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