Supreme Court Upholds Appellant Lessee in Mining Lease Modification Case Due to Statutory Lease Under Bihar Land Reforms Act Being New Lease. Majority Holds That Lease Deemed by Section 10(1) of Bihar Land Reforms Act, 1950 Was Granted After October 25, 1949 and Thus Not an Existing Mining Lease Under Rule 2(c) of Mining Leases (Modification of Terms) Rules, 1956, So Controller Lacked Power to Modify It....
The dispute arose from a 1928 mining lease granted by the Zamindar of Palganj estate for 49 years for extracting soapstone and kaoline. Sub-leases were executed in 1933 and 1934, and the appellants, B...
