Tata to challenge Singur Bill in HC

The Bill scrapping the previous Left Front government’s deal with Tata Motors to return land to “unwilling” farmers in Singur will be challenged by the company in Calcutta High Court.

“We will move the High Court tomorrow,” Barrister S Pal,who is representing Tata Motors,said on Tuesday. Asked which part of the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Bill,2011, they will be challenging,he said,“We are challenging the whole Act.”

The Bill was passed in the Assembly on June 14,amid a walkout by the Opposition Left parties. It received Governor M K Narayanan’s assent on Monday.

Meanwhile,the Hooghly administration pasted a notice on the walls of the Tata Motors abandoned project site at Singur with a copy of the gazette notification of the scrapping of the land deal.