Supreme Court of India

Debidutta Mohanty v. Ranjan Kumar Pattnaik & Ors.

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Reported as [2023] 2 S.C.R. 72
Bench M. R. Shah and B. V. Nagarathna JJ.
Decided 3 March 2023

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What the Court ordered

In view of the above and for the reason stated above, we are of the opinion that the High Court has committed a very serious error in quashing and setting aside the order dated 24.03.2021 passed by the Collector, Cuttack cancelling the lease deed which was i n favour of respondent no.

Judgment, page 11

From the headnote

Orissa Minor Minerals Concession Rules, 2016 – r. 51 (7) – Auction was to be made for grant of lease as per the Orissa Minor Minerals Concession Rules – One of the requirement of the a uction notice was that the bidder was required to submit a solvency certificate issued by the Revenue Officer – The res pondent no.1 participated in the tender process and submitted hi s application along with the solvency certificate issued by the T ehsildar – The solvency certificate was issued despite the specific order passed by the Sub-collector stating that a solvency certificate was to be issued in the

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