GODREJ VS GOVT ON ACQUISITION OF LAND FOR BULLET TRAIN

MUMBAI: The Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing Co. Ltd has refuted the allegation levelled by the state government that it had a major role in delaying the land acquisition process for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail Project.

The company told Bombay high court that the procedure adopted by the state government was illegal and bad in law. It further claimed that the final compensation of ₹264 crores awarded to it was way lesser than ₹572 crores, which was initially offered to it for its land and hence urgent interim reliefs sought by it could not be denied on national interest grounds.

On Thursday, a division bench of justice Nitin Jamdar and justice Sharmila Deshmukh heard the petition filed by the company challenging an order of the state government for acquisition of its land in Vikhroli for the project.