Interim stay on order in BSNL land deal case

Madurai: Madras high court has granted interim stay on the order of a single bench which had directed BSNL to either reconvey 59 cents of land back to a man which was purchased for Rs 1 or to pay the market value for the property as on date of sale deed.

A division bench of justices M Duraiswamy and K Murali Shankar passed the interim order while hearing the appeal preferred by BSNL challenging the order dated June 23. During the course of hearing, the counsel D Shanmugaraja Sethupathi appearing for BSNL submitted that though the original land owner A S Marimuthu had claimed that BSNL had assured to construct the building and name it after his father, he had not established the above claim by producing any documents. He further submitted that there was no such terms in the sale deed.