Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday adjourned the hearing of Tata Motors petition challenging the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act, 2011. While directing Hooghly District Magistrate to submit a report on deployment of police force at the site and maintenance of law and order in the region, the court said that the matter would be taken up at 11 AM on Friday.
The report must also clarify whether assets have been looted or pilfered from the factory as report in media and as submit by the Tata Motors' lawyers.
Tata Motors has challenged the Act passed by ther West Bengal Assembly and asked for an interim order to regain possession of the land.
Tata Motors argues that it was forced to leave Singur because of a law and order breakdown during Mamata Banerjee's agitation and blamed the then Left Front state government for its failure to provide security to its employees.
It also challenged the manner in which the company was forcefully evicted from the property on Tuesday by the current Trinamool Congress government.
In Singur supporters of the anti-land grab agitation organised victory rallies and shouted go-back slogans against the Tatas. A section of the locals also used the opportunity to plunder the company's assets from inside the plot.
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