DesiPundit

Eminent domain is often justified on the grounds that it is necessary for the “common good,” a phrase I am inherently suspicious of. As I mentioned here, the primary reason I am against the Narmada Valley project is that thousands of poor farmers were robbed of their property, forced to leave their land regardless of whether they wanted to sell or not. (In my view, if you don’t not want to sell your property, and are forced to sell it, that’s equivalent to theft. Thus, even if relief and rehabilitation had been carried out well in the case of the Narmada Valley farmers, which happens not to be the case, I’d still contend that they’ve been robbed.)

Amit Varma dwells once again, on the concept of Eminent Domain.