Supreme Court dismisses Mumbai SEZ plea

New Delhi, June 5 (PTI) The Supreme Court Friday
dismissed the Mukesh Ambani-promoted Mumbai SEZ plea for
staying the land acquisition process for its project in Raigad
in the western state Maharashtra.

A Bench headed by Justice B Sudarshan Reddy dismissed the
plea of the firm challenging the Bombay High Court interim
order that refused to stay the process of land acquisition.

However, the Supreme Court issued notice to the state
Government on another plea of Mumbai SEZ Ltd (MSEZ) seeking
transfer of its petition pending before the Bombay High Court.

Earlier senior counsel Shanti Bhushan, appearing for the
MSEZ, sought the stay on the land acquisition proceedings
initiated by notifications under Sections 4 and 6 on the
grounds that if the acquisition is not completed by June 8,
the entire process would lapse under the Land Acquisition Act,
1894.

A stay would have made the deadline redundant.

The Bombay High Court on May 22 had asked the MSEZ to
move the Supreme Court for expediting land acquisition as
various public interest petitions pertaining to the issue were
pending before the apex court. PTI IB
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