WB govt files report before High Court on Nandigram land aquisition

Kolkata, Jun 22 (UNI) The West Bengal Government here today filed the administrative report before the Calcutta High Court on the March 14 violence over land acquisition in Nandigram in which 14 persons were killed 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 the 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