Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Petition against Reliance SEZ in Punjab Haryana High Court

The fate of Reliance Industries Limited SEZ in Haryana will now be decided by the High Courts of Punjab and Haryana. We first exposed about the hush-hush land deal between Reliance Industries Limited and Haryana State Industries Development Corporation directly under the control of Haryana Government.

In a separate development, a public interest litigation has been filed in the Supreme Court of India seeking quashing of all land acquisitions for SEZs. Advocate Manohar Lal Sharma filed the petition, after state governments misused their power by using police force against farmers to forcibly evict them from the lands they own and the livelihood they earn from. The situation is similar to early 90s in Mumbai when underworld mafia was used to evict land owners. State Governments have become the mafia of the new age.

Industrialization not at the cost of our own farmers and our own fertile lands. Revisit the SEZ policy now.

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