2015 (2) TMI 642

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....ted. 2. Aggrieved by an interim order passed by the High Court of Calcutta in AST No.432 of 2014 dated 23.12.2014, the respondents 1 and 2 therein preferred the instant appeal. The relevant portion of the order reads as follows:-              "As the writ application has been admitted and as affidavits have been called for and as....

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.... to the said allotment, the third respondent herein executed a mining lease in respect of the said 'coal block' in favour of the first respondent. 5. The legality of the various allotments of the coal blocks became the subject matter of public interest litigation before this Court. By judgments dated 25.8.2014 and 24.9.2014, the allocation of various coal blocks including the one allocated in f....

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....or securing a "vesting order" of the mine under Section 8 of the Act. 9. Such an order of vesting shall transfer and vest upon the successful bidder various rights enumerated under Section 8(4). 10. Under Section 16 of the Ordinance, compensation is required to be paid with reference to "land" and "mine infrastructure" of the Schedule-I coal mines. The expression "mine infrastructure" is def....

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....y of the auction of the coal block of which he was the earlier allottee. 13. While declining to stay the auction as sought by the first respondent, the order impugned in the instant appeal came to be passed. 14. The learned Attorney General appearing for the Union of India submitted that the Union of India does not propose to acquire the end user plant of the respondent, as apprehended by th....