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Nano land not abandoned, alternate project planned: Tata counsel tells court

The Kolkata High Court proceedings in the Tata Motors Singur matter that were disrupted earlier today resumed with Tata’s counsel making the company’s intent of using the Singur land for alternate investment clear to the court.

Advocate Samaraditya Pal appearing for Tata Motor told the court of justice Saumitra Pal that the company was considering alternate investment on the Nano plant location and did not want to abandon the land, reported Indian Express.

The Supreme Court (SC) had in June this year decided in favour of Tata Motors by restraining the state government from returning the contentious land to the farmers and directed the Kolkata High Court to hear the matter.

Tata Motors had challenged the Singur Land Development and Rehabilitation Act, 2011 in the Kolkata High Court after the company shifted the Nano plant to Gujarat following mass protests and unrest by farmers in 2008 over land acquisition.

The company then approached the SC on the high court’s refusal to grant relief and only after the SC’s intervention was the matter taken up again by the high court, according to a report by Hindustan Times.

Advocate Pal explained to the court that Tata Motor had written to the state authorities in 2010 about setting up of an alternate project in the area on satisfaction of the law and order situation in response to advocate general Anindya Mitra’s plea that Tata Motors had abandoned the land and was just holding on to it.

Today’s hearing was deferred by a few hours when Pal declined to participate in the hearing of final arguments which began last week and complained of personal attacks that were allegedly levelled against him by the government counsel in a television show.

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