Supreme Court of India

State of Orissa and Ors. v. Steel Authority of India and Anr

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Reported as [1998] 3 S.C.R. 1072
Bench M.M. Punchhi and K. Venkataswami JJ.
Decided 10 August 1998

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the High Court was not right G in quashing the demands, which were rightly calculated and levied.

Judgment, page 5

From the headnote

Mines and Minerals (Regulation and Development) Act, 1957: Section 9(1). Mines and Minerals-Royalty-Payment of-Mode of :alculation- Manufacturer of iron, steel and allied products obtained a piece of land on lease for extracting limestone and dolomite for use as raw materials­ Agreement stipulated payment of royalty-Extracted mineral had undergone a processing to remove waste and foreign materials-Held : Such processing amounts to consumption-Hence, manufacturer liable to pay royalty on the entire mineral extracted and not on the quantity of mineral obtained after processing. Words and

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