MINERAL AREA DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY ETC. versus M/S. STEEL AUTHORITY OF INDIA AND ORS.

Citation: [2011] 4 S.C.R. 19 · Decided: 30-03-2011 · Supreme Court of India · Bench: S.H. KAPADIA, K.S. RADHAKRISHNAN, SWATANTER KUMAR · Disposal: Matter referred to larger bench
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[2011] 4 S.C.R. 19 
MINERAL AREA DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY ETC. 
v. 
M/S. STEEL AUTHORITY OF INDIA AND ORS. 
(Civil Appeal Nos.4056-64 of 1999) 
MARCH 30, 2011 
[S.H. KAPADIA, CJI, K.S. RADHAKRISHNAN AND 
SWATANTER KUMAR, JJ.] 
Reference to larger Bench: 
Mines and minerals - Royalty- Nature of- Tax on lands 
and buildings and on mineral rights - Conflict between 
decision rendered by five judge Bench of Supreme Court and 
decision delivered by seven Judge Bench of Supreme Court 
A 
B 
c 
- Questions of law framed which need consideration by the 
D 
larger bench - Request for reference to the Bench of nine 
Judge - Matter directed to be placed on the administrative 
side before the Chief Justice for appropriate orders - Mines 
and Minerals (Regulation and Development) Act, 1950- ss.2, 
9, 15(3) - Constitution of India, 1950 - Seventh schedule, List 
E 
I, Entry 54; List II, Entries 49, 50. 
State of West Bengal v. Kesoram Industries Ltd. and Ors. 
(2004) 10 SCC 201; India Cement Ltd. and Ors. v. State of 
Tamil Nadu and Ors. (1990) 1 SCC 12; M.P. V. 
Sundararamier and Co. v. State of Andhra Pradesh (1958) 1 
SCR 1422; Central Board of Dawoodi Bohra Community and 
Anr. v. State of Maharashtra. and Anr. (2005) 2 SCC 673 -
referred to. 
Case Law Reference: 
(2004) 1 o sec 201 
(1990) 1 sec 12 
(1958) 1 SCR 1422 
referred to 
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Para 5 
Para 5 
Para 9 
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G 
H 
A 
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SUPREME COURT REPORTS 
[2011) 4 S.C.R. 
(2005) 2 sec 673 
referred to 
Para 11 
CIVIL APPELLATE/ORIGINAL JURISDICTION : Civil 
Appeal Nos. 4056-4064 of 1999. 
From the Judgment & Order 22.3.1999 of the High Court 
B of Judicature at Patna, Ranchi Bench Ranchi, in CWJC No, 
1885, 178, 2251, 2252, 1783, 2915of1994 (R), 3113of1993 
& 269 & 268 of 1994 (R). 
WITH 
C C.A. Nos. 4710-4721, 4722-4724of1999, 1883 of 2006, T.P. 
(C) No. 722 of 2006, C.A. Nos. 4745, 4990, 4991, 4992, 4993 
of 2006, TP (C) No. 951 of 2006, C.A. Nos. 5649, 5599 of 
2006, 378, 665, 1180 of 2007, TP (C) Nos. 481, 906 of 2007, 
C.A. Nos. 3400, 3401, 3402, 3403 of 2008, 2055, 2174 of 
D 2009, 6498, 6137 of 2008, SLP (C) No. 26160 of 2008, C.A. 
E 
Nos. 6499, 6497, 7397 of 2008, 96, 97, 98 of 2009, SLP Nos. 
3849 of 2006, 763, 15900 of 2007, TP (C) Nos. 613, 626 of 
2009, C.A. Nos. 4478, 4479 of 2010 & SLP (C) No. 4191 of 
2011. 
Vivek K. Thanka Parag P. Tripathi, T.S. Doabia, ASG, 
Rakesh Dwivedi, K.K. Venugopal, Mahabir Singh, S.K. 
Bagaria, S.B. Upadhyay, Bhaskar, P. Gupta, Ajit Kumar Sinha, 
P. Sadasivan Nair, Dipankar Gupta, Nagendra Rai, R.F. 
F Nariman, A.K. Ganguli, Shambhu Prasad Singh, H. N. Salve, 
Dr. Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Ajit Kumar Sinha, Mahabir Singh, 
Shail Kumar Dwivedi, AAG, Aparesh Kumar Singh, Tapesh 
Kumar Singh, Preetika Dwivedi, Sansriti Pathak, Gopal 
Pathak, Ma. Pooja Dhar, Gopal Sankaranarayana, Radha 
G Shyam Jena, Gp. Capt. Karan Singh Bhati, Rashid, Aishwarya 
Bhati, Pawan Upadhyay, Rajesh R. Dubey, Anisha Upadhyay', 
Sharmila Upadhyay, Praveen Kumar, Bharat Sangal, Alka 
Singh, Akshat Shrivastava, P.P. Singh, lnderjeet Yadav, Anip 
Sachthey, Mohit Paul, Shagun Matta, Syed Shahid Hussain 
H Rizvi, D.K. Pradhan, Ashok Kumar Gupta-I, T.G. Narayanan 
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MINERAL AREA DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY ETC. v. 21 
STEEL AUTHORITY OF INDIA AND ORS. 
Nair, K.N. Madhusoodanan, Sunil Kumar Jain, Parmatma 
A 
Singh, Vanita Bhargava, Ajay Bhargava, Nitin Mishra (for 
Khaitan & Co.) S.K. Verma, E.C. Agrawala, Ashok Kumar 
Singh, Sunil Dogra (for Lawyer's Knit & Co.), P.V. Yogeswaran, 
U.A. Rana, Devina Sehgal (for Gagrat & Co.), Ruby Singh 
Ahuja, Sridhar Potarju, Gaichangpou Gangmei, Guntur 
B 
Prabhakar, Kuna! Verma, Prashant Kumar (for AP & J 
Chaambers), Gopal Prasad, Anupam Lal Dass, A. Bhavan 
Singh, Ajay Aggarwal, Kanika Gomber, Rajan Narain, Manu 
Nair, Kirat Singh, Tanuj Bhushan, Adit Pujari (for Suresh A. 
Shroff & Co.), Abhishth Kumar, Rakesh K. Sharma, Prashant 
C 
Jha, Manjula Gupta, Vaibhav, Punam Kumari, Prem Sunder 
Jha, Lyna Perira, Manjula Gupta, Prashant Jha, Syed Shaid 
Hussain Rizvi, D.K. Pradhan, Manik Karanjawala, Praveen 
Kumar, Sunil Kumar Jain, Aneesh Mittal Parmatma Singh, 
Aakansksha Munjhal, Shally Bhasin Maheshwari, E.C. 
0 
Agrawala, Bharat Sangal, R.R. Kumar Vernika Tomar, Alka 
Singh, B. Vijayalakshmi Menon, Gaurav Kejriwal, Jatinder 
Kumar Bhatia, Ashutosh Kumar Sharma, Gunnam 
Venkateswara Rao, B.S. Banthia, Vikas Upadhyay, Rishabh 
Sancheti, Sunita Sharma, Rekha Pandey, Asha G, Nair, D.S. 
Mahra, V.K. Verma, Dharmendra Kum
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