HC stays tender notification for land acquisition

  • | Saturday | 15th September, 2018

The petitioner complained that the notification issued for acquisition of land was vague and did not give adequate opportunity to the land owners to raise objections. MaduraiThe Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Friday granted an interim injunction against a tender notification issued for acquisition of lands for an oil pipeline project in Thoothukudi. Only if the names of land owners and survey numbers were made part of the notification, objections could be raised, he asserted. Justice J. Nisha Banu granted a stay on the notification and directed notice to the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Indian Oil Corporation and Thoothukudi district authorities. The petitioner, P. Ravindranath Reddy of Continental Multi Modal Terminal, said that the company had intended to establish a logistics park in Thoothukudi and had bought land.

more-in Madurai The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Friday granted an interim injunction against a tender notification issued for acquisition of lands for an oil pipeline project in Thoothukudi. Justice J. Nisha Banu granted a stay on the notification and directed notice to the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Indian Oil Corporation and Thoothukudi district authorities. The case has been adjourned for further hearing. The petitioner, P. Ravindranath Reddy of Continental Multi Modal Terminal, said that the company had intended to establish a logistics park in Thoothukudi and had bought land. But the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas issued a notification and expressed interest towards acquisition of the said lands for the purpose of laying a pipeline under the Ennore-Thoothukudi pipeline project undertaken by the Indian Oil Corporation. The petitioner complained that the notification issued for acquisition of land was vague and did not give adequate opportunity to the land owners to raise objections. Only if the names of land owners and survey numbers were made part of the notification, objections could be raised, he asserted.

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