KOLKATA, 17 APRIL: The Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act has nothing to do with agrarian reform, counsel of the vendors of Tata Motors Limited (TML) at Singur, Mr SK Kapur, submitted before the Division Bench of Mr Justice Pinaki Ghosh and Mr Justice Mrinalkanti Choudhuri of Calcutta High Court today. There are discordant notes in the submission of the state counsel defending the legality of the Singur Act, he further submitted zeroing in on what he considered to be the contradictions of the other side's submission.

KOLKATA, 10 APRIL: The entire Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act is redundant as, on one hand, the state is passing the Act and, on the other, submitting that the property had been returned to it four years ago. That was Tata Motors Limited (TML) counsel Samaraditya Pal's submission before the Division Bench of Mr Justice Pinaki Ghosh and Mr Justice Mrinalkanti Choudhuri of Calcutta High Court today. He was challenging the legality of the Singur Act.

KOLKATA, 22 MARCH: The state government plans to offer incentives to encourage industrialists to set up their units in the state, commerce and industries minister, Mr Partha Chatterjee said here this today. He was talking to reporters on the sidelines of a Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) conference.
Mr Chatterjee said, the government will never create Special Economic Zones (SEZs) to attract industrialists to invest in the state.

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee today told the Assembly that her government was committed to return land to the unwilling farmers of Singur whose land was "forcibly" acquired by the erstwhile Left Front government. The chief minister said the government was only awaiting the High Court verdict on the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act.

KOLKATA, 21 MARCH: The Division Bench of Mr Justice Pinaki Ghosh and Mr Justice Mrinalkanti Choudhuri of Calcutta High Court today asked advocate-general Anindya Mitra for the details of the scheme to make the rehabilitation and socio-economic development of Singur in the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act.

A similar scheme of development has been laid down in the Bangalore Development Act for the city and acquisition of land is incidental to it, the court observed.

KOLKATA, 13 MARCH: Return of land cannot come within the purview of public purpose as the peasants have no right to agitate after acquisition of land, the Division Bench of Mr Justice Pinaki Ghosh and Mr Justice Mrinalkanti Choudhuri of Calcutta High Court observed today.

KOLKATA: If there is an omission on the part of the legislature in formulating an Act, the court can fill up the gap, advocate-general Anindya Mitra submitted before the Division Bench of Mr Justice Pinaki Ghosh and Mr Justice Mrinalkanti Choudhuri of Calcutta High Court today.

Otherwise, if the statute is left unchanged, it will give rise to absurdity, it was submitted in defence of the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act, which has been challenged by Tata Motors Limited. This would have defeated the intent of the legislature, it was submitted.

If the criterion of computing compensation in an Act does not boil down to payment of just and equivalent of what the owner has been deprived of, then it is a bad legislation, advocate-general Anindya Mitra submitted before the Division Bench of Mr Justice Pinaki Ghosh and Mr Justice Mrinalkanti Choudhuri of Calcutta High Court today.

But the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act does not suffer from such deficiency, it was submitted in defence of the legality of the Act which has been challenged by Tata Motors Limited (TML).

KOLKATA, 29 FEB: The curator of Victoria Memorial was directed by the Division Bench of Mr Justice Pinaki Ghosh and Mr Justice Mrinalkanti Choudhuri of Calcutta High Court today to make an inventory of the exhibits in this marble mausoleum and give an affidavit to the court within four weeks. The court also directed environmental activist Subhas Dutta to give a copy of his petition regarding not making an inventory of these exhibits.

KOLKATA, 27 FEB: “How will the court reach a conclusion whether the compensation paid is illusory, if the recipient is not allowed to approach the court with a grievance?” the Division Bench of Mr Justice Pinaki Ghosh and Mr Justice Mrinalkanti Choudhuri of Calcutta High Court today asked advocate-general Anindya Mitra.