SUDARSHAN SINGH Vs. BHARAT COKING COAL LIMITED

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS writ petition has been preferred for getting employment with the respondents only on the ground that the land owned by the petitioners was acquired under the Land Acquisition Act. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioners submitted that the land of the petitioners was acquired for Mukunda Open Cast Project. The land was acquired in the year 1986, which was also stated by the respondents as per Annexures - 4 and 5 that the petitioners will be given employment as and when the land, in question, will be utilized for the project, but till today, the respondents have not given any employment to the petitioners and, therefore, the present writ petition has been preferred.

(2.) LEARNED counsel for the respondents submitted that the land, in question, owned by the petitioners was acquired for the aforesaid purpose, there after, the project was not established in collaboration with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and because of this, the project in question, could not be established. It has also been stated in the counter affidavit that the land, in question, is also in possession of the present petitioners. Nonetheless, it is submitted that the payment of compensation, for land acquisition, has already been made, but, so far as employment is concerned, as there is no project established by the respondents upon the land, in question, the petitioners have not been given any employment, but, in future if there is any project established upon the said land as stated in Annexure -4 to the memo of the petition, rehabilitation benefits as per Rehabilitation and Resettlement Policy will be extended to the petitioners.