New Delhi: Relief for disadvantaged communities cannot be extended to benefit commercial entities, the Supreme Court has said.

With this, it has upheld the West Bengal government’s acquisition of land belonging to a ceramic company in Hooghly’s Singur at the site of Tata Motors’ now-discontinued Nano manufacturing plant, overturning a Calcutta High Court order.

In a 13 October ruling, the Supreme Court clarified that one of its 2016 judgments quashing land acquisition in Singur was intended for disadvantaged cultivators only. It was not intended for industrial entities that accepted compensation to then go silent for years, the court stated. Show Full Article

“Relief conceived to prevent impoverishment among the disadvantaged cannot extend to commercial enterprises with financial capac

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