Supreme Court · 1961 INSC 39 · Decided 10 February 1961
M/S. Burrakur Coal CO., LTD. v. The Union of India and Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1961 INSC 39 · [1962] 1 S.C.R. 44
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 241/1960
- Decided
- 10 February 1961
- Bench
- BHUVNESHWAR PRASAD SINHA, S.K. DAS, A.K. SARKAR, N. RAJAGOPALA AYYANGAR, J.R. MUDHOLKAR (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 19(1)(g), 31(2), 31A(1)(e), 32
Headnote
SUPREME COURT REPORTS M/s. BURRAKUR COAL CO., LTD. v. [1962] THE UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS (And connected petition) (B. P. SINHA, c. J., s. K. DAS, A. K. SARKAR, N. RAJAGOPALA AYYANGAR and J. R. MuDHOLKAR, JJ.) Coal Min<S-Law providing for prospecting for coal and ac­ of India, Arts. 31A(1)(e), 31(2). The Coal Bearing Areas (Acquisition and Development) Act, 1957, was enacted, as indicated in the preamble, for providing for the acquisition by the State of unworked land containing or likely to contain coal deposits, and under s. 4(1) of the Act, the
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