This Notification was followed by Notification dated 16.1.84 issued under Section 6 1 of the Act and the right of user in the aforesaid land stood acquired for laying the pipelines.
It was also indicated in that Notification that the right of user in the said lands shall, instead of vesting in the Central Government, vest in the Oil and Natural Gas Commission.
Appellant owns survey plot number.
The Gas processing plant is said to be located at Hazira and south basin.
In pursuance of the aforesaid numberifications, Oil and Natural Gas Commission for short, ONGC laid down pipelines in the aforesaid plots of land for transportation of Petroleum from Utran Terminal to Kribhco Terminal.
For acquiring the right of user in those plots to enable the respondent number2, namely, the oil and Natural Gas Commission, in whom the rights were ultimately vested, to lay pipelines for transporting Petroleum from one place to another, a Notification was issued under Section 3 1 of the Act on 23.6.83.
SAGHIR AHMAD, J. Leave granted.
Water is a mineral within the meaning of Mines Act, 1952 read with Section 2 ba of the Petroleum and Minerals Pipelines Acquisition of Right of User in land Act, 1962 for short, the Act or number is the question raised by the respondent in this appeal.
