The Supreme Court Of India agreed to hear the plea of farmers on Monday,organisations challenging legality of the fresh promulgation of the land acquisition ordinance by the Narendra Modi-led government.
Bench comprising Chief Justice H L Dattu and Justice Arun Mishra said,“We will have it on Monday,”The petition was filed by Bharatiya Kishan Union, Gram Sewa Samiti, Delhi Grameen Samaj and Chogama Vikas Avam, seeking a direction to restrain the government from acting upon in furtherance of the Right to Fair Compensation & Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Amendment) Ordinance, 2015.
The farmers’ organisations, in their plea filed on Thursday, challenged the re-promulgated land ordinance, terming it as “unconstitutional” and ultra vires of the Constitution and as a “colourful exercise of power” by the executive usurping law-making powers of the legislature.
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