Calcutta HC to pass final order on Tata Motors petition on Sep 26

The Calcutta High Court today said it would pass its final order on September 26 on the Tata Motors plea for not allowing West Bengal government to disclose contents of its agreement on setting up its small car plant while extending the interim gag order till September 30. Justice Dipankar Dutta, after conclusion of hearing in the case, said he would deliver the judgement on Tata Motors' prayer for an injunction on the state principal information officer's directive to the state government to disclose the contents of the agreement. Appearing for Tata Motors, counsel S Pal submitted that parts of the document were official secrets and should not be made public. Concluding the arguments, Kalyan Banerjee for petitioner Trinamool Congress leader Partha Chatterjee, who had applied to the SPIO for contents of the deal, said the agreement could not be treated as a state secret as the land at Singur was acquired for public purpose. Justice Dutta had on September 12 passed an interim stay for two weeks on operation of the order of the SPIO on September 8 that asked West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation, a nodal government agency of the state for the project, to make public the full text of the document. Tata Motors, whose small car project is in limbo, has moved the Calcutta High Court and obtained the interim gag order on the West Bengal government. A tripartite agreement was signed on March nine, 2007 among Tata Motors, West Bengal government and WBIDC, the nodal agency of the state for the project.

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