HC seeks status report

HC seeks status report

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Our Legal Correspondent
KOLKATA, May 2: A Division Bench of Chief Justice Mr SS Nijjar and Mr Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose of Calcutta High Court today disclosed one paragraph of the CBI report on the Nandigram police firing of 14 March in which 14 persons were killed and about 100 injured.
In that one paragraph, the CBI stated that it had confined its inquiry to the terms of the court order. To ascertain the justification for the firing and the actual happening an investigation was required.
The CBI had submitted its report to the High Court on 22 March.
After disclosing one part of that report the Division Bench today directed the West Bengal Government to apprise it of the present situation prevailing in Nandigram and the surrounding areas tomorrow when the matter would be taken up for further hearing The Division Bench heard some writ petitions on land acquisition in Singur for the Tata small car factory. Apparently not satisfied with the state government’s affidavit, the court directed the government to file a fresh affidavit giving details of the land acquisition there.
The government should state how much land had been acquired under different provisions of the Land Acquisition Act of 1894 and how much money had been paid by the government for land acquisition there. Mr MP Raju and Mr Idris Ali appeared for Mr Joydeep Mukherjee, one of the petitioners in the Singur case.
The Advocate-General, Mr Balai Ray, briefed the chief minister on the High Court order.
Meanwhile, CPI-M activists ransacked vehicles and abused a group of intellectuals, led by Ms Saonli Mitra, while they were returning from a meeting at Sonachura yesterday. The intellectuals later lodged an FIR against the CPI-M for the attack.