Thursday, August 28, 2014

India supreme court rules coal mining licenses illegal

[JURIST] The Supreme Court of India [official website] ruled [judgement, PDF] Monday that all coal mining licenses awarded between 1993 and 2010 are illegal. The court found that the licenses failed to comply with the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act of 1957 [text, PDF]; Section 3(3)(a)(iii) of the Coal Mines (Nationalisation) Act of 1973 [text]; the principle of trusteeship of natural resources, arbitrariness, lack of transparency, lack of objectivity and non-application of mind; and allotment tainted with mala...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2014/08/jurist-in-2012-the-justice.php

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