Thursday 21 May 2009 - All stories compiled and edited by Bhaswati Das
Promoters of Mumbai SEZ, RIL chairman Mukesh Ambani and his associate Anand Jain, moved the vacation bench of the Bombay High Court seeking a direction to the state government to accelerate the process of land acquisition in Raigad district. In response to this, the court has called for a reply from the district collector’s office by May 22, 2009.
Janak Dwarkadas, the lawyer for the SEZ argued that two years after the state issued a declaration of “intention to acquire the land” for the company, the collector has not issued a final award.
With an intention of setting up the SEZ, the company had already paid Rs 600-crore, apart from signing agreements with the land owners. “If the final consent award is not made before June 6, the whole process would lapse in line with the Land Acquisition Act,” he contended.
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