Supreme Court · 2022 INSC 379 · Decided 1 April 2022
M/S Bharat Coking Coal LTD. v. Mahendra Pal Bhatia and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2022 INSC 379 · [2022] 13 S.C.R. 287
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 5377/2015
- Decided
- 1 April 2022
- Bench
- HEMANT GUPTA, V. RAMASUBRAMANIAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Coal Mines (Nationalization) Act, 1973: ss.2(h), 3 - Coal mines - It is not the corporate houses or the business entities owning coal-mines that are transferred to and vested in the Central Government, but it is the coal-mines that are transferred to and vested in the If the land fell within the definition of the expression "mine" under the Nationalisation Act, the same stood transferred to and vested in the Central Government under s.3(1) - As could be seen from clause (xi) of s.2(h), even the land and building used solely for the location
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