High Court notice to Prakash Jha
(No Ratings Yet)The Patna High Court today issued notice to filmmaker Prakash Jha asking him to explain his position on November 18 on a PIL that alleged his firm had been illegally allotted land in a number of towns in Bihar for commercial activities.
Hearing the PIL filed by state Congress chief spokesman Prem Chandra Mishra, a division bench comprising Justices Aftab Alam and Samarendra Pratap Singh asked the industry department to deliver the notice to Jha.
Mishra alleged that the state government had leased 32 kathas of land acquired by the Bihar Industrial Area Development Authority to Jha’s firm on June 25 for only Rs 14.65 lakh, though its current market value was Rs 4.8 crore.
The land would be used by Jha’s firm for setting up a multiplex that was “purely a commercial activity” and thus did not qualify for concessions normally allowed to industry.
The state government had alloted plots to Jha at Muzaffarpur, Sitamarhi, Hajipur and Patna for projects which would involve investment of several crores though the filmmaker and his firm did not have sufficient income and assets to be awarded such contracts, it said.
— PTI
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