Summary:
The state has claimed that there are only 521 affidavits filed by "actually affected persons". In the remainder affidavits, there are 99 duplicate replies, whereby more than one reply has been filed by the same person. In what could be termed as a 'rigorous scrutiny exercise', the state government on Monday filed a detailed affidavit before the high court pointing out loopholes and anomalies in the 849 replies filed by farmers against the proposed land acquisition for the ambitious bullet train project. The petitions filed by the farmers need to be rejected without a grant of any relief. The scrutiny suggests that the affidavits filed by the petitioners "does not inspire confidence" and are placed on record only to "hype the whole issue", the affidavit provides..