Supreme Court · 2012 INSC 305 · Decided 26 July 2012
Monnet Ispat & Energy LTD. v. Union of India and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2012 INSC 305 · [2012] 7 S.C.R. 644
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 3285/2009
- Decided
- 26 July 2012
- Bench
- RAJENDRA MAL LODHA, H.L. GOKHALE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution
Headnote
Constitution of India, 1950: c Art.294, First Schedule - State Government's ownership in mines and minerals within its territory - Held: Erstwhile State of Bihar being a part-A State specified in First Schedule and prior thereto the Province of Bihar, by virtue of Art. 294 all properties and Majesty for 0 the purpose of the Government of Province of Bihar stood vested in corresponding State of Bihar - By the Bihar Act, 1950, all other lands, i.e. estates and tenures of whatever kind including the mines and minerals therein stood vested in the State of Bihar - Pursuant to Bihar
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