NEW DELHI: An Indian farmer’s battle for proper compensation for land seized to build a railway reached an unexpected conclusion this week when a court awarded him a train. On Friday Singh’s lawyer said a court in the state had awarded him an express train in lieu of the 10 million rupees ($150,000) he was owed. Railway officials later secured an interim court order giving them control of the train until the case is heard again on Saturday. Last year, an express train was confiscated on court orders after a 62-year-farmer in southern Karnataka state won a compensation case over land taken in 2006. And in 2015, railway officials handed over 3 million rupees to two farmers at a station in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh to secure the release of an express train.

Source: The Star March 17, 2017 12:33 UTC