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India Court Overturns Land Law Aimed at Tata
A court in India has struck down a new law that would have forced Tata Motors Ltd. to forfeit the land in Singur, West Bengal, it bought three years ago for a plant to produce the ultra-low-cost Nano sedan.
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A court in India has struck down a new law that would have forced Tata Motors Ltd. to forfeit the land in Singur, West Bengal, it bought three years ago for a plant to produce the ultra-low-cost Nano sedan.
The Calcutta High Court declared the law, which targeted Tata, unconstitutional and invalid.
Tata abandoned the nearly completed factory in late 2008 after violent protests by farmers whose land had been appropriated for the facility. The action forced Tata to begin temporary low-volume production at two other existing plants until it opened a new Nano plant in Gujarat in western India in 2010.
West Bengal's legislature passed the Singur land law in 2011, which required Tata to return the land to the farmers. The state government says it will appeal the High Court ruling to the Supreme Court.
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