An Indian court has quashed an order by a state government that allowed Reliance Power to buy land for its planned Dadri power project without hearing landowners' grievances, domestic media reported on Saturday. The Anil Dhirubhai Ambani group firm, which has acquired about 2,500 acres of land for its planned 7,480-megawatt power plant in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, may have to renegotiate a part of that land, the Economic Times daily said.
The Allahabad High Court on Friday struck down an earlier notification of the Uttar Pradesh government that used emergency powers to acquire land from farmers for the project, the media reported. It ruled the government will now have to invite objections from farmers, the Economic Times said.
The court also said the land acquired for the Dadri project could not be termed as an action in the public interest but was done for a private company, the Economic Times added.
Reliance Power was reviewing the judgement, the company's chief executive officer J.P. Chalasani told reporters on a conference call, according to the reports. "We are confident that the state government of Uttar Pradesh will expeditiously take requisite steps of land acquisition at the earliest to enable the implementation of the project," he said.
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