Supreme Court · 1976 INSC 196 · Decided 24 August 1976
Sone Valley Portland Cement CO. LTD. v. The General Mining Syndicate PVT. LTD.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1976 INSC 196 · [1977] 1 S.C.R. 359
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1250/1968
- Decided
- 24 August 1976
- Bench
- HANS RAJ KHANNA, R.S. SARKARIA, JASWANT SINGH (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution
Headnote
Bi/tar Lund Reforms Act, 1950-ss. 4(a) alnd IO-Lessee of mines-:-lf a tenure-holder or intermediary under the Act. lntuprl'tation-Amendment of a section-If could be used to interprtt an earlier provision in the Act. The proprietor of large tracts of land leased blocks of land to the lessees at a The lessees sub-leased the land to the appellant who undertook to pay the less'ees the same royalty and rent payable by them to the proprietor. They also agreed to pay an additional royalty to the head-lessee. The sub-lease gave an option to th'<! appellant to• make payment of royalty
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