Supreme Court has quashed land allotment to cricketer Sourav Ganguly by West Bengal Government in 2000. Quashing the allotment of 63.04 'katha' land in the posh Salt Lake city, a bench headed by Justice A K Ganguly directed the cricketer to surrender the land within two weeks. The court passed the order on a petition filed by a West Bengal-based NGO, Humanity and others, challenging the Calcutta High Court's order which had upheld the state government's decision of allotting the land to Ganguly. Allowing the appeal of NGO, the bench quashed the allotment and also directed the government to refund the money paid by Ganguly for the land. The NGO had alleged that the land was illegally allotted to Ganguly as it was earmarked for a college.