WB: Govt files report on Nandigram aquisition

Kolkata, June 22: The West Bengal government here today filed the administrative report before Calcutta High Court on March 14 violence over land acquisition in Nandigram in which 14 persons died in police firing and scores of people were wounded.

The government conducted the administrative enquiry on an order of the High Court which initiated a suo motto case on the day after Nandigram violence triggered off a widespread controversy.

Advocate general Balai Roy placed a report before the division bench, headed by chief justice Surinder Singh Nijjar.

Altogether seven petitions had been filed before the court 'seeking' impartial probe into the Nandigram killings.

The Court, however, began to hear the petitioners early this week. Two of the petitioners- Calcutta High Court Bar Association and the Rights Watch Group Association For Protection of Democratic Rights- completed their submission before the court.

The court directed the other petitioners to file their submission before the bench in writing.

The state government would defend the case before the bench from Monday.

UNI

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