Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 554 · Decided 25 July 2024
Mineral Area Development Authority & ANR. v. M/S Steel Authority of India & ANR. ETC.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 554 · [2024] 7 S.C.R. 1549
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 4056/1999
- Decided
- 25 July 2024
- Bench
- D.Y. CHANDRACHUD, HRISHIKESH ROY, ABHAY S. OKA, B.V. NAGARATHNA, J.B. PARDIWALA, MANOJ MISRA, SATISH CHANDRA SHARMA, AUGUSTINE GEORGE MASIH, UJJAL BHUYAN (9-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Reference answered
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 366(28)
Headnote
The questions which arose for determination are as to what is the true nature of royalty of the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957; whether royalty is in the nature of tax; what is the scope of Entry 50 List II Seventh Schedule; what is the ambit of the limitations imposable by Parliament in exercise of its legislative powers under Entry 54 List I; does
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