Kolkata: The legal battle between Tata Motors and the West Bengal government has been moved to the Supreme Court to challenge the Kolkata High Court's refusal to stop the distribution of acquired land to the farmers of Singur.
The Calcutta High Court refused to pass an interim order restraining the West Bengal government from distributing land to farmers which it took back from Tata Motors.
The Supreme Court was to hear the plea Wednesday.
Tata Motors counsel Samaraditya Pal had sought a stay on the distribution of land, expressing apprehension it would be distributed to ‘unwilling' farmers within a day or two.
Tata Motors in its plea has requested the Supreme Court to stop the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act, passed by the state assembly recently, and has sought to restrain the state government from taking possession of the land allotted to it by the previous Left Front government.
‘Undue haste'
On Monday night, Tata Motors issued a statement saying: "As per the country's legal procedures, the company will agitate the matter before the Supreme Court… The company believes that as per conventions established in the country when a matter is being heard at a court of law, the parties concerned, more so when the party is the state, should not alter the existing state of facts in the matter, and the undue haste being shown by the government is not conducive to upholding the rule of law."
Kalyan Banerjee, representing the state government and a Trinamool Congress MP, said: "Under no circumstances can Tata Motors win the case."
