Supreme Court of India

Bharat Coking Coal Ltd. and Anr. v. State of Bihar and Ors.

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Reported as [1990] 3 S.C.R. 744
Bench K.N. Singh and M.H. Kania JJ.
Decided 17 August 1990

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the slurry which escapes from the appellants' washeries is mineral and its regulation is within the exclusive jurisdiction of the Central Government.

Judgment, page 27

From the headnote

Mines and Minerals (Regulation and Development) Act, 1957: Sections 2, 3, 5, 13, 18--Coal slurry escaping from coal mine washery­ Deposited on river-bed and Raiyati /and-Lease for disposal thereof-· --=r _ Competence of State Government-Non-framing of Rules by Central Government-Whether cunfers legislative competence on State Legisla­ ture-Extent of executive power in the execution of lease-Coal slurry-Whether constitutes mineral. Constitution of India, 1950: Article 162-State's executive power-Whether co-extensive with legislative power-State denuded of its legislative competence-Whether

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 relied on · 1 referred to

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