India: Bihar high court revokes stay order on construction of a new United Breweries plant

The Patna high court on March, 21 revoked the stay order on construction of a beer factory at Naubatpur in Patna district, The Times of India reported on the same day.

The Bihar Industrial Area Development Authority (BIADA) had allotted 142 acres land to United Breweries of Vijay Malya for the factory.

A division bench comprising Justice Prakash Chandra Verma and Justice Vikas Jain passed the order while hearing Letters Patent Appeals (LPAs) by Abhishek Kumar and others, whose land had been acquired by BIADA and allotted to the United Breweries. The appellants pleaded that the land had been acquired for setting up sugar mills and not for a beer factory. The government lawyer argued that the land was not acquired for setting up sugar mills.

23 March, 2012