https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=173240 The writ petition was treated as maintainable in the High Court because territorial objection alone did not warrant rejection where one respondent had offices within jurisdiction and related facts were disputed. The claimed right to collect and remove coal slurry was held unenforceable: slurry was treated as a mineral, and its surface collection amounted to mineral-winning activity, so the indenture was in substance a mining lease requiring prior Central Government approval and, in any event, was overtaken by coal nationalisation legislation. The petitioners also failed to prove abandonment, as the coal company continued to assert ownership and sell the slurry, so no title arose by possession. en-us Fri, 28 Jan 1983 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 10 Sep 2015 16:45:29 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=173240 The writ petition was treated as maintainable in the High Court because territorial objection alone did not warrant rejection where one respondent had offices within jurisdiction and related facts were disputed. The claimed right to collect and remove coal slurry was held unenforceable: slurry was treated as a mineral, and its surface collection amounted to mineral-winning activity, so the indenture was in substance a mining lease requiring prior Central Government approval and, in any event, was overtaken by coal nationalisation legislation. The petitioners also failed to prove abandonment, as the coal company continued to assert ownership and sell the slurry, so no title arose by possession. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 28 Jan 1983 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=173240