Supreme Court of India

Goa Foundation v. Union of India & Ors.

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Reported as [2014] 5 S.C.R. 302

Bench A.K. Patnaik, Surinder Singh Nijjar and Fakkir Mohamed Ibrahim Kalifulla JJ.

Decided 21 April 2014

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What the Court ordered

We hold that workers who could not be paid wages by the le_ssees will have to be paid compensation at the rate of 50% of their basic wages and dearness allowance during the period of non employment on account of suspension of mining operations.

Judgment, page 80

From the headnote

Commission of inquiry Act, 1952: ss. BB and BC - Justice Shah Commission - Report on illegal mining ·in State of Goa - Held: Jn view of the stand of the State Government that no action will be taken against m;ning Jesse.Es only on the basis of the findings in the report 0 of Justiee Shah Commission without making its own assessment of facts and without first giving the mining lessees opportunity of hearing and opportunity to produce evidence in their defence, Court is not inclined to quash the report of Justice Shah Commission on the ground that provisions of ss. BB and BC of the 1952 Act,

Authorities it was built on

2000 Gadnis Bhawani Shankar v. Faleiro Eduardo Martinho cited by 39
2012 Re: Special Reference N0.1 of 2012 v. -- cited by 31
1985 Union of India and Another v. Tulsiram Patel and Others cited by 30
2012 Centre for Public Interest Litigation and Others v. Union of India and Others cited by 29
1989 Kiran Bedi & Ors. v. Committee of Inquiry & Anr. cited by 9
2010 In Re.: Construction of Park at Noida Near Okhla Bird Sanctuary Anand Arya & Anr. T.N. B Godavarman Thirumulpad v. Union of India & Ors. cited by 7
1996 Tata Iron and Steel Co. Ltd. Etc. v. Union of India and Anr. cited by 6
2003 State of Bihar v. Lal Krishna Advani and Ors. cited by 2
2003 State of U.P. and Ors. v. Lalji Tandon (dead) through Lrs. cited by 2

Where later benches applied it

2018 The Goa Foundation v. M/s Sesa Sterlite Ltd. & Ors. relied on
2016 State of Rajasthan and Ors. v. Gotan Lime Stone Khanji Udyog Pvt. Ltd. and Anr. relied on
2023 In Re : T. N. Godavarman Thirumulpad v. Union of India & Ors. referred to
2023 In Re: T.N. Godavarman Thirumulpad v. Union of India and Others referred to
2022 In Re: T.N. Godavarman Thirumulpad v. Union of India and Ors. referred to
2020 Chowgule and Company Private Limited v. Goa Foundation & Ors. referred to

Of those, 2 relied on · 4 referred to

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