Supreme Court · 1966 INSC 198 · Decided 3 October 1966
Bihar Mines LTD. v. Union of India
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1966 INSC 198 · [1967] 1 S.C.R. 707
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 172/1963
- Decided
- 3 October 1966
- Bench
- K. SUBBA RAO, M. HIDAYATULLAH, RAGHUBAR DAYAL, S.M. SIKRI, R.S. BACHAWAT (5-judge bench)
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution
Headnote
Bihar Land Reforms Act, 1950 (Act 30 of 1950), s. 10(1) & (2)­ Subsisting mining leases deemed after date of vesting to be leases by the State Government-Such leases whether 'existing mining leases as defin­ ed by Rule 2(c) of Mining Leases (Modification of Terms) Rules, under the Mines and Minerals (Regulation and Development Act 1957) read with the 1956 Rules whether applies to such leases-Validity of 1951 Act and 1956 Rules. A lease of certain lands in Palganj estate in Bibar was granted by the Zamindar in 1928 for a period of 49 years. The lease was for the
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