Gujarat Khedut Samaj, led by the veteran activist and former state minister Sanat Mehta, has filed the PIL on behalf of farmers of 22 villages in Dholera tehsil.
The bench of acting Chief Justice Jayant Patel and VM Pancholi posted the matter for further hearing on December 15. Till then, it barred the state government from carrying out any activity in the SIR, located around 30 km from here.
The SIR is part of the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor.
The petition also challenges the Special Investment Region Act brought in by Gujarat government in 2009 which aims at facilitating SIRs for industrial development.
The petetion says that several provision of the Act are unconstitutional
Though DMIC passes through six states, except Gujarat no other state has a law under which the land can be acquired without paying compensation, he said.
SIR Act contradicts the central land acquisition Act of 2013 which gives the right to compensation, and whenever there is a conflict between Central and state acts, the Central act prevails, said advocate Vakharia.
Advocate general Kamal Trivedi, for the state, however argued that Dholera SIR project was important not only for Gujarat but the country and the government was working in the interest of the country.