A division Bench of the court comprising Justices Aftab Alam and Rekha Kumari termed the allotment as illegal and directed the Government to take possession of all the land allotted to Jha's company Holy Cow Pictures Pvt Ltd. The court also ruled that if Jha's company wanted land then it should do so through a proper application. The state Government was also asked to report within three months about the status ofthelandsallottedtohiscompany. Details of the judgment are awaited.

This ruling came on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by Congress leader Premchand Mishra. In his petition Mishra said that allotment of land by the Industry Department of the state Government was illegal on four grounds. Firstly, there was no public notice nor tenders were invited fortheallotment.Second,land was allotted to Jha's company much below the market price. Thirdly, multiplex is not an industry according to the indus trialpolicyofthestateGovern- ment, and finally, land was al- lotted to him even before he had applied for it.