Arunangsu Chakraborty, a resident of Salt Lake and CA Citizen Association, Salt Lake, had filed two PILs challenging the allotment of land to Sourav.

He had alleged that the state government alloted land to the former cricketer violating legal provisions of the Urban Land Ceiling Act. “The state government handed over a plot of 18 cottah in May 1999. After this, the state again handed over another plot to Sourav at the CA block,” Chakraborty had said in his petition.

According to the affidavit filed this week, against an advertisement by the Urban Development department, Sourav, on November 17, 2006, had applied for a plot at the BF block in Salt Lake for setting up a school. The said land was handed over to him on February 14, 2008 on lease.

But the former skipper later requested Urban Development Minister Ashoke Bhattacharjee to allot land at the CA block for the proposed school. The department concerned informed him that Sourav first needed to surrender the land allotted to him at the BF block.

Though Sourav had requested the Urban Development department to extend the time for registration of deed of surrender at the BF block, it could not be registered due to his busy schedule, he said in the affidavit.