Singur and Nandigram were two West Bengal land-acquisition protests. Tata Motors left Singur in October 2008 and the Supreme Court quashed the acquisition on 3…
A Calcutta High Court division bench set aside the state's decision to withdraw 10 Nandigram-Khejuri cases and said they must be revived and prosecuted.
An arbitral tribunal ruled Tata Motors can recover Rs 765.78 crore from WBIDC plus 11% interest from 1 September 2016.
The Court set aside the acquisition of about 1,000 acres and ordered the land returned within 12 weeks. It ruled on the legality of the acquisition, not on the Nano proj…
A High Court division bench struck down the Singur Act on 22 June 2012; the Supreme Court stayed that on 24 August 2012.
The Trinamool-led alliance won and Mamata Banerjee became Chief Minister after 34 years of Left Front rule.
After months of protest and an unresolved dispute over land, Ratan Tata announced the pullout; Sanand was named on 7 October.
The High Court held the 14 March firing wholly unconstitutional and told the CBI to continue the inquiry it had first been sent to conduct on 15 March. It ordered compen…
Seven people were killed and 32 injured; 560 houses were fully and 399 partly damaged, per a state report.
The NHRC records 14 killed and about 300 injured, including 52 policemen. Other accounts give higher estimates.
A preliminary notice for a chemical hub and SEZ of about 10,000 acres alarmed residents, who formed the BUPC.
Tata Motors announced the Nano plant on 18 May 2006. The state acquired 997 acres at Singur under the 1894 Act. Mamata Banerjee began a hunger strike in December 2006.
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