New Delhi: The Singur car project of Tata Motors received another setback on Wednesday as the Calcutta High Court has set aside the prohibitory orders issued by the Hooghly district administration there.
The orders banned the holding of rallies and meetings in the area, which has witnessed protests in recent months against the acquisition of land for the Tata Motors' project.
Justice Dipankar Datta set aside the orders under section 144 CrPC, observing that it is illegal and was a misuse of power by the state government.
The prohibitory orders that were imposed from February 4 at Singur, where the Tata Motors' small car plant is being built, were sent to expire tonight in response to a writ challenging them.
The court said the orders were predetermined and passed by abusing power. There was no ingredient for invoking section 144 of CrPC and the rights of the petitioners had been infringed under Article 19 of the Constitution.
Ganesh Chakraborty and other members of the Krishi Jami Bachao Coimmittee (Save Farm Land Committee) of Singur filed the petition was challenging the re-imposition of prohibitory orders by Singur's sub-divisional police officer.
Prohibitory orders were first clamped at Singur on November 30, the day Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee was not allowed to go there. The incident subsequently led to the ransacking of the West Bengal assembly.
The orders were withdrawn on January 28 and re-imposed on February 4 following fresh protests.
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