Kolkata (PTI): Tata Motors, the small car project of which is in limbo,on Friday moved the Calcutta High Court and obtained an interim gag order on the West Bengal government from making public the tripartite agreement for setting up the Nano project here.

Justice Dipankar Dutta passed the interim stay for two weeks on operation of an order of the state information commissioner that asked the West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation (WBIDC), a body of the state government, to make public the full text of the document.

The information commissioner had on September 8 asked the WBIDC to make public the agreement.

Appearing for Tata Motors, senior advocates S Pal and S Mitra submitted that it was found that some portions of the agreement had been made public recently causing serious prejudice to the petitioner.

They stated that the agreement between the parties was a trade secret while alleging that the state government had violated provisions of the RTI Act while publishing parts of the agreement for the public.

The tripartite agreement was made on March 9, 2007 among Tata Motors, West Bengal government and WBIDC, the nodal agency of the state for the project.

A prolonged agitation led by Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee for return of land to unwilling land losers has led the Tata Motors to suspend work for construction of the Singur plant, from which the Rs one lakh car was set to roll out by October.

The state government had acquired 997.94 acres of land at Singur for the plant.