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Hearing today on petition against Singur acquisition

New Delhi: The Supreme Court will hear on Tuesday a special leave petition against a Calcutta High Court judgment upholding acquisition of about 1,000 acres of land by the West Bengal government for the Tata Motors’ small car project at Singur.

The acquisition was challenged in a batch of petitions, which said this area was the source of livelihood of 10,000 agricultural households and if fertile land was destroyed it could not be replaced.

The High Court on January 18 rejected the contentions and held that the land acquisition for the project would result in socio-economic development and employment generation.

In his SLP against this judgment, advocate Kedar Nath Yadav said acquisition of the fertile, multi-crop land was violative of farmers’ rights guaranteed by the Constitution. The government acquiring land in the name of public purpose without any specific master plan and depriving farmers of their livelihood and without giving them proper compensation was mala fide and illegal.

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