Archaic land acquisition act should go
Source: Hueiyen News Service
New Delhi, June 27 2011:
The Supreme Court on Monday said the archaic land acquisition act must go to prevent Nandigram in every state.
The Supreme Court Bench said it would not like a situation similar to Nandigaram in West Bengal where such steps to acquire land by invoking urgency clause under which farmers cannot raise objections led to large-scale protests and violence.
"This has to go and if it does not go this court will step in to ensure that.
It is development of one section of the society only," the bench said.
The apex court expressed its annoyance over the invocation of urgency clause under the land acquisition law for taking over the land on which high-cost residential flats were being constructed.