Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Shivaji Chatterjee Vs Himadri Chemical & Others dated 16/01/2018 regarding pollution caused by Himadri Chemicals, Singur, West Bengal. The Applicant Shivaji Chatterjee prays for an interim direction for inspection of the unit by a Committee which …
KOLKATA, 25 JUNE: Governor MK Narayanan was advised by legal experts that Presidential assent would not be required for the Singur Land Rehabilitation & Development Bill, 2011. Hence, he signed the Bill, said Mr Narayanan today adding: “If the High Court felt otherwise, then it is alright. What can we …
The West Bengal government will have to “introspect” to find out the reasons why it lost the case challenging the constitutional validity of the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act, 2011 to Tata Motors, the West Bengal Congress, a constituent of the Trinamool Congress-led state government said here on Sunday. …
Tension prevails in villages after high court verdict Mr Dulal Manna, who is 98, asserted: “We lost the fight because now we are divided in our land.” The division in Singur between willing and unwilling farmers created in the wake of land acquisition for the Tata Motors’ aborted small car …
Kolkata, June 22 (PTI): The Calcutta High Court on Friday held as unconstitutional and void the Singur Land Rehabilitation & Development Act of 2011 under which the Trinamool Congress-led state government had sought to take back land leased to Tata Motors by an earlier government. Giving its verdict on an …
SINGUR (WB), 22 JUNE: Despondency has set in among farmers of Singur, who were unwilling to part with their land for Tata Motors small car project, after Calcutta High Court today ruled that the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act, 2011, was unconstitutional and void. The judgment was awaited by …
KOLKATA, 4 JUNE: The state Cabinet will approve a proposal to pay Rs 1000 per month to the unwilling farmers and agricultural labourers of Singur at a meeting tomorrow. The state commerce and industry department has moved the proposal to the Cabinet for clearance to pay a monthly sum to …
KOLKATA, 17 APRIL: The Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act has nothing to do with agrarian reform, counsel of the vendors of Tata Motors Limited (TML) at Singur, Mr SK Kapur, submitted before the Division Bench of Mr Justice Pinaki Ghosh and Mr Justice Mrinalkanti Choudhuri of Calcutta High Court …
KOLKATA, 10 APRIL: The entire Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act is redundant as, on one hand, the state is passing the Act and, on the other, submitting that the property had been returned to it four years ago. That was Tata Motors Limited (TML) counsel Samaraditya Pal's submission before …
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee today told the Assembly that her government was committed to return land to the unwilling farmers of Singur whose land was "forcibly" acquired by the erstwhile Left Front government. The chief minister said the government was only awaiting the High Court verdict on the Singur Land …
KOLKATA, 22 MARCH: The state government plans to offer incentives to encourage industrialists to set up their units in the state, commerce and industries minister, Mr Partha Chatterjee said here this today. He was talking to reporters on the sidelines of a Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) conference. Mr Chatterjee …
KOLKATA, 21 MARCH: The Division Bench of Mr Justice Pinaki Ghosh and Mr Justice Mrinalkanti Choudhuri of Calcutta High Court today asked advocate-general Anindya Mitra for the details of the scheme to make the rehabilitation and socio-economic development of Singur in the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act. A similar …
KOLKATA, 13 MARCH: Return of land cannot come within the purview of public purpose as the peasants have no right to agitate after acquisition of land, the Division Bench of Mr Justice Pinaki Ghosh and Mr Justice Mrinalkanti Choudhuri of Calcutta High Court observed today. The Divison Bench was hearing …
KOLKATA: If there is an omission on the part of the legislature in formulating an Act, the court can fill up the gap, advocate-general Anindya Mitra submitted before the Division Bench of Mr Justice Pinaki Ghosh and Mr Justice Mrinalkanti Choudhuri of Calcutta High Court today. Otherwise, if the statute …
If the criterion of computing compensation in an Act does not boil down to payment of just and equivalent of what the owner has been deprived of, then it is a bad legislation, advocate-general Anindya Mitra submitted before the Division Bench of Mr Justice Pinaki Ghosh and Mr Justice Mrinalkanti …
KOLKATA, 29 FEB: The curator of Victoria Memorial was directed by the Division Bench of Mr Justice Pinaki Ghosh and Mr Justice Mrinalkanti Choudhuri of Calcutta High Court today to make an inventory of the exhibits in this marble mausoleum and give an affidavit to the court within four weeks. …
KOLKATA, 27 FEB: “How will the court reach a conclusion whether the compensation paid is illusory, if the recipient is not allowed to approach the court with a grievance?” the Division Bench of Mr Justice Pinaki Ghosh and Mr Justice Mrinalkanti Choudhuri of Calcutta High Court today asked advocate-general Anindya …
Defending the legality of the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act, advocate-general Anindya Mitra today submitted that the state can acquire land for a specific purpose by enacting a law. The Singur Act has a public purpose and intention to pay compensation to Tata Motors Limited (TML), he submitted before …
KOLKATA, 21 FEB: No repugnancy exists between the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 and the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act, 2011 as their dominant purpose is different, advocate-general Anindya Mitra submitted before the Division Bench of Mr Justice Pinaki Ghosh and Mr Justice Mrinalkanti Choudhuri of Calcutta High Court today. …
KOLKATA, 14 FEB: Can an about-to-be-launched plant be relocated as a result of 10 days’ agitation, advocate-general Anindya Mitra submitted before the Division Bench of Mr Justice Pinaki Ghosh and Mr Justice Mrinalkanti Choudhuri of Calcutta High Court today. If the machinery have been removed, why were not the buildings …
The Tata Motors Limited (TML) had a right to the Singur plot as long as it intended to set up an automobile plant on it, advocate general Anindya Mitra submitted before the Division Bench of Mr Justice Pinaki Ghosh and Mr Justice Mrinalkanti Choudhuri of Calcutta High Court today. But …
