Guwahati: Gauhati High Court didn’t discover any floor to intrude with the choice of the Assam cupboard taken in September 2021 to arrange an agro undertaking on about 1,000 bighas of land in Sipajhar in Assam’s Darrang district after evicting round 700 households, who had been illegally occupying the land.
The bench of Justice Achintya Malla Bujor Barua and Justice Robin Phukan was listening to a PIL on Tuesday filed by the chief of the opposition in Assam meeting and senior Congress chief Debabrata Saikia looking for quashing of the cupboard determination.
The bench stated, “After perusal of the petition as well as hearing the counsel for the petitioner, no material nor any ground could be pointed out to enable the court to arrive at any such conclusion so as to interfere with a cabinet decision of the government of Assam to set up an agro farm/model project at Sipajhar.”
The bench added, “Circumstances under which an interference of a cabinet decision can be made is circumscribed and it cannot be that a cabinet decision would be interfered for an oblique purpose of seeking certain rehabilitation which may be required pursuant to any such eviction or displacement that may take place while implementing such cabinet decision.”
Saikia moved the excessive courtroom quickly after the eviction drive which turned violent ensuing within the loss of life of two and no less than 20 injured. Apart from praying for quashing the cupboard determination, the petitioner additionally prayed earlier than the courtroom to direct the state authorities for rehabilitation and allotment of land to the households evicted there.
J Handique, counsel for the income and catastrophe administration division, submitted earlier than the courtroom that as per the information and data supplied to him by the departmental officers, round 700 households have been affected within the eviction, of which about 600 households have already been resettled by giving different plots of land.
On round 100 households, who haven’t been rehabilitated, the lawyer stated a few of these households might produce other different land, however have been occupying land from which they have been evicted and should have gone again to their unique land.
The bench of Justice Achintya Malla Bujor Barua and Justice Robin Phukan was listening to a PIL on Tuesday filed by the chief of the opposition in Assam meeting and senior Congress chief Debabrata Saikia looking for quashing of the cupboard determination.
The bench stated, “After perusal of the petition as well as hearing the counsel for the petitioner, no material nor any ground could be pointed out to enable the court to arrive at any such conclusion so as to interfere with a cabinet decision of the government of Assam to set up an agro farm/model project at Sipajhar.”
The bench added, “Circumstances under which an interference of a cabinet decision can be made is circumscribed and it cannot be that a cabinet decision would be interfered for an oblique purpose of seeking certain rehabilitation which may be required pursuant to any such eviction or displacement that may take place while implementing such cabinet decision.”
Saikia moved the excessive courtroom quickly after the eviction drive which turned violent ensuing within the loss of life of two and no less than 20 injured. Apart from praying for quashing the cupboard determination, the petitioner additionally prayed earlier than the courtroom to direct the state authorities for rehabilitation and allotment of land to the households evicted there.
J Handique, counsel for the income and catastrophe administration division, submitted earlier than the courtroom that as per the information and data supplied to him by the departmental officers, round 700 households have been affected within the eviction, of which about 600 households have already been resettled by giving different plots of land.
On round 100 households, who haven’t been rehabilitated, the lawyer stated a few of these households might produce other different land, however have been occupying land from which they have been evicted and should have gone again to their unique land.
