Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday granted continuation of the stay of the trial court order validating the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act which has been challenged by the Tatas. The stay order passed by the high court means that West Bengal government cannot distribute land among farmers until the matter is heard. The court will hear the case from November 8 onwards. A division bench of justices...
12:38 PM, Nov 03, 2011
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court is likely to take up Tata Motors Limited's (TML) appeal against upholding of the Singur Act by a single bench of the court on Thursday. TML moved a division bench comprising Justices PC Ghosh and MK Choudhury on Wednesday seeking continuation of a stay on application of the trial court's order which would expire during the day, and also the appeal against the order upholding...
04:10 PM, Nov 02, 2011
Kolkata: The Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday assigned the appeal of Tata Motors Ltd challenging a trial court order upholding constitutionality of Singur Land Act to a new division bench after the state questioned whether an earlier bench had jurisdiction to hear the case. Chief Justice JN Patel assigned the TML appeal challenging the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act, 2011, to a division bench comprising...
12:59 AM, Nov 02, 2011
Kolkata: Tata Motors had challenged the order of the single judge of the Calcutta High Court, which had upheld the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act, 2011, by which West Bengal government vested the land leased to the company at Singur, before a division bench of the Court. The Tata Motors has appealed against the order of Justice IP Mukerji which was passed on September 28 and gave a copy...
08:44 AM, Nov 01, 2011
Kolkata: There couldn't have been a better day to be Mamata Banerjee. On the day the West Bengal Chief Minister won her maiden assembly polls, the Calcutta High Court set aside the Tata Motors petition challenging the validity of the Singur Land Act which the state Assembly passed in June this year. The Act provided for taking over the 997-acre plot from the company and returning a portion to unwilling...
08:57 PM, Sep 28, 2011
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday described as a "historic verdict" the Calcutta High Court's order upholding validity of the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act 2011 by which West Bengal government vested the land leased to Tata Motors Limited. "Today's verdict is historic verdict. Agitation of the farmers in Singur has not only shown the path to other parts of India, but also to the whole...
01:48 PM, Sep 28, 2011
New Delhi: In a setback for the Tatas, the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday upheld as constitutional and valid the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act, 2011 by which the West Bengal government vested the land leased to Tata Motors Ltd (TML). Justice I P Mukerji, while upholding the validity of the Act, directed that compensation be paid to TML if it makes an application for it while noting that...
10:57 AM, Sep 28, 2011
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court is expected to pronounce its verdict on a plea filed by Tata Motors challenging the constitutional validity of the Singur Land rehabilitation act. The Supreme Court, on an appeal from Tata Motors, had stayed distribution of the land of the disputed factory site until further orders from the High Court. The judgement is scheduled to be passed at 10:30 am by the court of Justice...
07:49 AM, Sep 28, 2011
Kolkata: Tata Group will invest in West Bengal only if it is satisfied that the state government has no hostility towards it, the conglomerate's chairman Ratan Tata said in Kolkata on Tuesday. "There is a need for satisfying ourselves that there is no hostility towards us. When we feel that way, we will undoubtedly, like anywhere else, invest in the state," Tata said at the annual general meeting of the...
03:57 PM, Aug 30, 2011
Kolkata: The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) on Sunday accused West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of misleading the masses by making false promises during her stint as railway minister and felt that she is still pursuing the politics of gimmicks in the state. "For two years she went on laying one foundation stone after another. Before the (April-May) assembly polls she started claiming repeatedly that she has made provision...
07:46 PM, Aug 21, 2011
Kolkata: West Bengal government on Thursday told the Calcutta High Court that return of acquired land to unwilling farmers is in public interest and defines such farmers as those who do not accept the compensation awarded in return for their land. Hearing the Tata Motors Ltd's petition challenging the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act, 2011, Justice IP Mukerji asked the government if return of the acquired land was for...
06:15 PM, Aug 18, 2011
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court judge hearing the Tata Motors' challenge of the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act on Tuesday recused himself from the case and the matter would be heard by another judge. Justice Saumitra Pal recused from the case on personal grounds. The judge said he personally knows one of the persons whose names appeared in the files relating to the case. Chief Justice J N Patel,...
04:46 PM, Jul 26, 2011
New Delhi: CNN-IBN has accessed the draft land acquisition bill. According to the draft, consent of 80 per cent of the project affected people is mandatory. The draft bill also has a provision for the land owners to get six times the registered price. If land prices go up, 20 per cent of the increased value should go back to land owners for 10 years. Rs 2000 per month will...
05:57 PM, Jul 23, 2011
On the night of June 21, around 10 pm, the police of West Bengals Hooghly district descended on Tata Motors half-built Singur plant and threw out the private guards there. In about half an hour, the new government in West Bengal, under the leadership of Mamata Banerjee, took over the 997 acres that had proved to be the Waterloo of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and its allies. Earlier,...
11:32 AM, Jul 20, 2011
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday witnessed moments of high drama during hearing on Singur issue with Tata Motors' counsel refusing to argue the case over the alleged "personal attack" by a West Bengal government lawyer and the judge turning down Advocate General's plea to order a media gag on the day's proceedings. At the start of the hearing on Tuesday morning, Tata Motors' counsel Samaraditya Pal alleged that...
04:04 PM, Jul 19, 2011
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