With new judge,Singur hearing begins afresh

Beginning the Singur hearing afresh,Justice I P Mukherjee asked the Tata Motorss counsel about the companys decision on the provision of payment of compensation for land in the Singur Act.

Justice Soumitra Pal – who has been hearing the Tata case from June 22 withdrew himself on Tuesday on personal grounds. Today,the counsels of Tata Motors and the state government approached Justice Mukherjee to hear the case.

While the Tata Motors counsel,barrister Samaraditya Pal,explained the legal dispute,Justice Mukherjee raised the point about the provision of compensation as mentioned in the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act and asked Pal about the companys decision regarding this. Would Tata Motors be agreeable to terminating the lease if the compensation is paid by the state government,Justice Mukherjee asked Pal.

Pal pointed out that the provision of compensation was not clear in the new act. It was not clear how the compensation would be determined by the district judge,Hooghly,as there was no such guideline in the new act.

Tata Motors had challenged the new act as unconstitutional,Pal said. Tata Motors had been dispossessed from the land at Singur illegally and the land should be returned to the company,he argued.

After government pleader Ashoke Banerjee said Tata Motors had abandoned the Singur site,Justice Mukherjee asked the Tata Motors counsel about the companys plans regarding using the land at Singur.

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