The Calcutta High Court today set aside an order of the State Information Commission to make public Tata Motors’ agreement with the West Bengal government for the Singur small-car plant.
Observing that the Information Commissioner should hear the matter afresh, Justice Dipankar Dutta directed that Tata Motors must be heard before it passed any order.
Justice Dutta also directed the Information Commissioner to complete the hearing of the application for disclosure of the details of the agreement within eight weeks. Tata Motors had moved the HC challenging the commission’s order claiming it was unconstitutional as it had not given it any opportunity to state its position.
Meanwhile, Tatas’ reported plan to roll out Nano from Pantnagar seems to have run into trouble with a group of farmers planning an agitation against giving more land to the firm. Hanif Gandhi, a member of the “Kisan Kisani Abhiyaan,” said farmers will launch a movement on the lines of “Chipko movement” if Uttarakhand provided any more land to the company.
