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Kolkata Thursday June 23, 2011 www.thebengalpost.com CITY 3 Briefly Tatas move high court over Singur legislation, but Mamata Banerjee seems more determined than ever to return land Plan for better Tata Motors moves school education CM sticks to her commitment Kolkata: The school educa- tion department has constituted an advisory HC over Singur council to plan a guideline for development, school Our Legal Correspondent ery and equipment still lying education minister inside the “abandoned” site. Rabindranath Bhattacharya Kolkata: Tata Motors moved The developments come a said on Wed n es day. The the Calcutta High Court on day after the Act came into names of the council mem- Wednesday challenging the force and the government bers would be fina lised in legality of the Singur pasting a notice on the main consultation wi th CM Land Rehabilitation and gate of the deserted project Mamata Banerjee, the min- Development Act, 2011 site on Tuesday night. ister said. — BP enacted by the Bengal gov- Tata Motors’ counsel Pal ernment to return land to the met the Chief Justice of the Concrete chunk ‘unwilling farmers’ of Singur, Calcutta High Court, Joy whose land was acquired by Narayan Patel, at his south falls off building the Left Front government for Kolkata residence on Tuesday Kolkata: A concrete chunk a small car factory to be built night and communicated the fell from a three-storied by the Tatas. automobile major’s plan to building at Radhanath As the matter came up for challenge the Act. Chaudhury Road on hearing before the Bench of Considering the importance Wednesday morning. There Justice Soumitra Pal, he of the matter, it was assigned was no injury reported after refused to hear ex parte Tata to Justice Pal by the Chief the incident. Police Motors’ petition and directed Justice. informed the matter to the the company’s counsel, Arguing for Tata Motors, Kolkata Municipal Samaraditya Pal, to serve counsel Pal told the Bench Corporation (KMC). Primary notice to the state govern- that the company abandoned inquiries revealed that ear- ment. After the company fol- its plan to roll out the world's lier KMC authorities demol- lowed the court’s directive, cheapest car from its factory ished had a portion of the Justice Pal took up the case in in Singur in the wake of a building and remnants of the afternoon. series of violent agitations. the demolished building Supporters of the Singur Krishi Jami Raksha Committee take out a rally in Singur on Wednesday—BP Tata Motors, however, has The erstwhile state gov- collapsed. — BP clarified that the company ernment failed to maintain did not ask for an ex parte law and order as hundreds of Nine injured in Our Correspondent advocate Kalyan Banerjee to team manifesto. We will go ahead with said Kalyan Banerjee, who is also hearing at all, when the protesters laid siege to the up with advocate-general Anindya it,” said Banerjee in the Mamata Banerjee’s main legal Singur matter came up for factory, Pal pleaded. road accident Kolkata: Chief minister Mamata Mitra in the legal battle against the capital. adviser. hearing in the high court. The “Even employees of the Kolkata: Nine persons were Banerjee is determined to keep her Tatas. On her way to meet the deputy “In this case, I am appearing for state government was repre- factory were threatened with injured when a lorry political commitment of returning “Anybody can go to court, it is his chairman of the Planning the industry secretary. Of course, we sented by advocate-general dire consequences,” he rammed into the back of a land to the unwilling farmers of prerogative. No problem. The gov- Commission, Montek Singh do work according to the chief min- Anindya Mitra along with argued. mini-truck which was carry- Singur. ernment has decided to return the Ahluwalia, Banerjee reiterated that ister’s instructions. We also lawyer Kalyan Banerjee, who "The project was almost ing a funeral party to Despite the possibility of a long land. We will hand over the land to the process of returning land will have with us is also a Trinamool Congress complete. A trial run of the Nimtalla Burning Ghat. The legal battle delaying the process of the unwilling farmers. Land is in our not be delayed. veteran advocate Shaktinath MP. small car was on its way. Tata injured were rushed to a returning land initiated by the state possession. It was the decision of the “The Bill is absolutely in accor- Mukherjee,” said Banerjee, confirm- The hearing continued till Motors was determined to nearby hospital. Seven were government looming ahead, a confi- West Bengal government following dance with the Constitution. Tatas ing that the chief minister had been 4.45 p.m. after which court roll out the world's cheapest discharged from the hospital dent Banerjee on Wednesday which a Bill was passed in the may be angry. But it will serve the supervising the matter from Delhi in was adjourned till Thursday. car soon. But relentless agita- after the first aid. — BP instructed party MP and senior Assembly. It was in our election interest of the common people,” all earnest. The 562-page petition tion forced the company to claimed that the Act was scrap the project and leave Long-distance trains “illegal and unconstitu- Singur," Pal pleaded. tional”. Pal prayed before the court to increase speed In another dramatic turn, for a stay on the notification Kolkata: The railway Security tightened at Tata former mayor of Kolkata and which had asked the com- department has decided to prominent lawyer Bikash pany to vacate the land. He increase the speed limits of Bhattacharya, representing a also sought the appointment some long-distance trains. section of the landowners in of a special officer to oversee The journey time of those factory site in Singur Singur, appealed to the court the project area till “the case trains would now be to be “an added party to the is disposed of”. reduced by 15 minutes to case”. On several occasions, there one hour as confirmed by Rathin Bhattacharya divisional police officer jao,aamader jomi chere dao’ At the end of the day’s were heated exchanges the Eastern Railway. Those Amitava Maiti went to the (Go back Tata, leave our hearing, the court observed between the counsels of the trains are Dibrugarh Town to Hooghly: Security arrange- site with a large police force land). The rally ended at the that the state government two parties. At one point, Howrah-Kamrup Express, ments at the abandoned to get the land vacated. project’s main gate. should take all necessary Pal’s submission was inter- Malda Town to Sealdah- Medha Patkar in Singur on Wednesday — BP Tata Motors factory were About 900 people had “The way the new gov- steps to maintain law and rupted by Mitra and Banerjee Gour Express, Saharsa strengthened by the state already moved out and so ernment has proceeded in order in around the aban- and the Bench had a trying Sealdah-Hatey Bazare government on Wednesday had project officer Dilip the Singur issue, any doned Nano project. It also time to pacify the two sides. Express, Kolkata Garib Rath following the takeover of Sengupta, letting the dis- obstruction by Tata Motors instructed the state to make The Bench will hear advo- Express and Kolkata Patkar marches the project site on Tuesday. trict police take over the won’t harm the proced- adequate security arrange- cate-general Mitra’s submis- Radhikapur Express. The The government took 1,000-acre land. ings. We will soon give ments to protect the machin- sion on Thursday. department also made a possession of the land by “Since the land has been back the land to the 4,600 change of destinations for virtue of the Singur Land taken back by the govern- farmers whose land was some trains. The Kolk - in solidarity Rehabilitation and ment, workers are being forcefully acquired by the ata–Sealdah local would be Development Act 2011, a asked to vacate the area,” erstwhile Left Front gov- changed to Baruipur instead Singur: Social activist Medha has put up 54 notices signed piece of new legislation said Rangarajan. ernment. A committee is of the existing destination of Patkar on Wednesday by district magistrate Sripriya aimed at giving back land to On the other hand, some being formed on the behalf Sealdah. — BP appealed to Bengal chief min- Rangarajan on the walls of the dispossessed farmers. people forcibly entered the of the government. ister Mamata Banerjee to project site with a copy of the The Hooghly district project site on Wednesday The Singur Farmland New halt for keep in mind the interests of gazette notification scrapping magistrate stuck 54 notices morning and tried to take Protection Committee sharecroppers and landless the land deal with the Tatas. on the factory gates since away a few things from the along with government Patna Express labourers in Singur while The private security guards of the first one was fixed on site. But police chased them committee will decide on Kolkata: The Patna Express returning the acquired land to Tata Motors have vacated the Tuesday evening. away. how to give back the land,” will now stop at New farmers. site. The Tatas responded by Upbeat Singur farmers said MLA Becharam Farakka and Kahalgaon sta- Patkar, who undertook a Villagers alleged that a hanging their own notice, celebrated yet again, bring Manna. tions on an experimental padayatra here at the aban- huge quantity of material stating that the firm needed out a huge procession of In contrast, those farmers basis from July 1 to Decem - doned Tata Motors project from the abandoned factory at least five hours to react to 2,000 people, led by MLA who had given their land ber, said Eastern Railway site, said the company should was stolen on Tuesday night any directive from the state Becharam Manna, who is for the car factory appeared authorities.