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A Division Bench of Chief Justice Mohit S Shah and Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghosh also asked the petitioners and the counsel of Sourav and the state to file their arguments in writing by Monday.
Sourav’s counsel Saktinath Mukherjee pleaded that a society led by former Indian cricket captain had prepared a plan to set up an English-medium school of international standards at Salt Lake for the benefit of residents.
Arunangsu Chakraborty, a resident of Salt Lake who moved the plea, however, argued that the state government allotted 62 cottahs of land in violation of the provisions laid out in the Urban Land Ceiling Act, which is still in existence in Bengal.
A counsel for the state government pleaded the land was allotted to Sourav for setting up a school after publishing advertisements in the newspapers and that proper legal procedure was followed.
Humanity, a social organisation, CA-Block Association and Arunangsu Chakraborty had filed a public interest litigation last year alleging that the state government had allotted a land at Salt Lake to Sourav illegally.
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