In a reality check to State acquisition of agricultural land under emergency clause for industrial projects of private companies, the Supreme Court on Wednesday quashed the CPI (M)-led West Bengal government’s acquisition of 997 acres of agricultural land for industry captain Tata Motors’ Nano “small car” plant in Singur.  The 204-page judgment...said though it is “completely understandable” for the government to acquire land to set up industrial units, the “brunt of development” should not be borne by the “weakest sections of the society...”...A Bench of Justices V. Gopala Gowda and Arun Mishra agreed...to quash the acquisition process of the land and return it to thousands of short-changed landowners, farmers and cultivators, who have been fighting a prolonged legal battle for over 10 years...The Supreme Court which quashed the acquisition of land in Singur for the Tata Motors’ project...and directed that it be returned to the farmers, said the law was violated...The Bench said the State employed the emergency clause without even bothering to give the farmers a “decent opportunity to raise their complaints...