Supreme Court · 1976 INSC 197 · Decided 24 August 1976
Amritlal Nathubhai Shah and Others v. Union Government of India and Another
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1976 INSC 197 · [1977] 1 S.C.R. 372
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1554/1972
- Decided
- 24 August 1976
- Bench
- A.N. RAY, N.L. UNTWALIA, P.N. SHINGAL (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 162, 298
Headnote
Mines and Minerals (Regulation and Development) Act, 1957-State Gov­ emme11t reserved certain areas for exploitation of minerals in public sector-if had the power to do so-Stale Governmellf~If could reject application of private persons. The appellants' applications for grant of mining leases State Government on the ground that the areas for exploitation of which they had applied, had been reserved for exploitation in the public sector. The Central Government dismissed the revision applications pointing out that since the mine­ rals vested in the State Government it had inh,erent
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