Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 830 · Decided 3 December 2014
Promoters and Builders Association of Pune v. The State of Maharashtra & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 830 · [2014] 12 S.C.R. 347
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 10717/2014
- Decided
- 3 December 2014
- Bench
- RANJAN GOGOI, R.K. AGRAWAL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Land Revenue Code Section 48(7)
Headnote
Maharashtra Land Revenue Code, 1966: s.48(7) - Imposition of penalty - Whether the ·excavation activity even B for the purposes of laying foundation of the building would C attract rigours of s.48(7) of the Code - Held: Ordinary earth has been brought within the fold of a Minor Mineral issued u/s.3(e) of the Act of 1957 - In terms of the said Notification, "ordinary earth" used for filling or levelling purposes in construction of embankments, roads, D railways, buildings is deemed to be a minor mineral - An excavation undertaken to lay the foundation of a building
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