Supreme Court quashes land allotment to Sourav Ganguly

The Supreme Court Thursday overturned the decision of the West Bengal government to allocate land in Kolkata Salt Lake with former captain Sourav Ganguly cricket. The apex court bench of Justice and Justice GS Singhvi AK Ganguly has ordered the state government to repay Rs 20 lakh paid by the cricketer for the plot.
Justice Ganguly led the cricketer to turn the earth in two weeks, and asked the state government to repay the money in another two weeks.

Sourav Ganguly has been allocated one acre of land in the upscale neighborhood of Salt Lake in 2000 to establish a school.

However, various NGOs and local residents had opposed the agreement, saying the real price of land has been many times what he paid.