The Supreme Court on Friday permitted the West Bengal government to withdraw a petition filed by the previous Left Front regime challenging a Calcutta High Court order that the Nandigram police firing,which killed 14 persons during an anti-land acquisition protest,was unconstitutional. The governments plea was heard in the chambers of Justice C K Prasad,who allowed the petitions withdrawal after the government submitted that it accepted the HCs conclusions and did not want to proceed further with the litigation. The previous government had challenged the HC order indicting it for the unjustified firing and directing it to pay hefty compensation. Later,the Mamata Banerjee government filed an application in the SC agreeing to award the compensation.
