https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=288056 Amended mining law displaced any preferential claim based on the date of filing, so pending prospecting licence applications had to be considered under the law in force at disposal rather than the unamended Section 11 regime. The Court also recognised that departmental officers may hear and process applications for the Government under the Rules of Business without a separate statutory delegation, where no contrary statutory scheme applies. Vague allegations of bias and the collateral challenge to the earlier return of the application were rejected. The writ petition therefore failed and the impugned proceedings were left undisturbed. en-us Fri, 02 May 2008 00:00:00 +0530 Fri, 15 May 2020 18:31:58 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=288056 Amended mining law displaced any preferential claim based on the date of filing, so pending prospecting licence applications had to be considered under the law in force at disposal rather than the unamended Section 11 regime. The Court also recognised that departmental officers may hear and process applications for the Government under the Rules of Business without a separate statutory delegation, where no contrary statutory scheme applies. Vague allegations of bias and the collateral challenge to the earlier return of the application were rejected. The writ petition therefore failed and the impugned proceedings were left undisturbed. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 02 May 2008 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=288056