Supreme Court on July 10 stayed Gujarat High Court’s order directing the recovery of land allotted to Adani Ports in Navinal village, Mundra.
A bench of justices BR Gavai and KV Viswanathan passed the order in an appeal filed by Adani ports against the recovery of around 108 hectares of land by Gujarat government.
During the course of the hearing, Adani contended that the order was passed without giving them an opportunity to make submissions in the case, thus it needs to be stayed. The court thus passed an order staying the HC's order.
The state HC had recently ordered the recovery of allotted land from the Adani group firm in a PIL filed by a person named Fakir Mamed and others a decade ago against the allotment of the land. According to media reports, Mamed is a resident of the village.
The case dates back to 2005 when the 108 hectares was allotted to Adani Ports. In 2010, when Adani Ports and SEZ started fencing the land, residents of Navinal village there approached the high court with a public interest litigation and challenged the allotment of 231 hectares of grazing land to Adani Ports.
In 2014, the court disposed of the matter after the state government said that an order granting 387 hectares of government land for grazing had been passed.
However, when the allotment did not happen, the matter was revived in the court. Subsequently, the court asked a senior revenue official to draw a solution to the issue. The official responded that the state government had decided to take back nearly 108 hectares — 266 acres — of land that had been allocated to Adani Ports in 2005.
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