The Madras High Court has restrained villagers owning land around the Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited (CPCL) refinery at Muttam near Nagore in Nagapattinam district from staging an indefinite sit-in on a private land against the acquisition of 696.93 acres for the expansion of the refinery.
Admitting a State appeal against permission granted by a single judge for the protest, Chief Justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari and Justice D. Bharatha Chakravarthy said it would be advisable for the landowners not to indulge in any protest and instead await the outcome of the cases filed by some of the land-owners seeking fair compensation.