Supreme Court pulls up NBA for misleading statements | Duties and Rights |Economic and Social Rights

May 17, 2011 - PRLog -- The Supreme Court has directed the Madhya Pradesh government to allot land to the oustees affected by acquisition of land for the Omkareshwar dam in accordance with the provisions of the relief and rehabilitation policy.

A Bench of Justices J.M. Panchal, Deepak Verma and B.S. Chauhan made it clear that the State had an obligation to allot land to the oustees.

It was disposing of a batch of appeals filed by the State and the Narmada Bachao Andolan (Madhya Pradesh unit) against interim orders of the Madhya Pradesh High Court.

However, while referring to the submissions made on behalf of the NBA that tenure holders had been dispossessed of their land.



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