https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=200864 Competing mining lease applications must be examined under the statutory scheme on their merits before any priority based on earlier filing is applied; automatic preference for the first applicant is legally incorrect. The analysis also states that a writ challenge to the State's operative lease order is not defeated merely because the Central Government's revisional direction was not separately questioned, since an illegal administrative order does not become valid by being consequential to another erroneous order. The discussed consequence is that the lease grant is liable to be quashed and reconsidered in accordance with law. en-us Wed, 16 Jan 1974 00:00:00 +0530 Sat, 28 Apr 2018 13:03:47 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=200864 Competing mining lease applications must be examined under the statutory scheme on their merits before any priority based on earlier filing is applied; automatic preference for the first applicant is legally incorrect. The analysis also states that a writ challenge to the State's operative lease order is not defeated merely because the Central Government's revisional direction was not separately questioned, since an illegal administrative order does not become valid by being consequential to another erroneous order. The discussed consequence is that the lease grant is liable to be quashed and reconsidered in accordance with law. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 16 Jan 1974 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=200864