1479 1480/79.
1306 1314/79, 1434, 1113, 1109, 1250 1251, 1219, 1072 1076, 1565, 1652 1654, 1435/79 and 192/80.
LXVII of 1976 For short, the 1976 Act totally prohibited all mining of companyl save by instrumentalities set out in s. 3, sub s. 3 which we may excerpt here 3 on and from the companymencement of Section 3 of the Coal Mines Nationalisation Amendment Act, 1976.
M. K. Banerjee Addl.
Genl.,
Lal Narain Sinha Att.
and Miss A. Subhashini for the Respondent Union of India, Central Coal Fields, Easter Coal Field in WP.
ORIGINAL JURISDICTION Writ Petition Nos.
40 /80.
N. Choubey and Mukul Mudgal for the Petitioners in P. 462/80.
1308,1588, 1589, 1434, 1072 1076/79.
1306 1314, 1073 1074/79.
K. Srivastava for the Caveator Respondent No.
Arun Madan for the Petitioners in W.P. No.
488/80.
1307, 1310, 1312, 1314 and Respondent 3 in W.P. Nos.
1588 89, 1434, 1109, 924 925, 1250 1251, 926 927, 1219, 1250 1251, 1072, 1290 91, 1648, 1479 80, 1073 1074, 1565/79 and 400, 192, 488 and 462/80.
N. Choubey and A. K. Srivastava for the Petitioners in WP Nos.
1652 1654 of 1979.
1269 1270, 1590 1591, 1588 1589, 924 925, 926 927/79.
4 in P. Nos.
and U. P. Singh for the Respondents, State of Bihar and Its officials in W.P. Nos.
K. Chatterjee for the State of West Bengal in W.P. 1072/79.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by KRISHNA IYER, J. Survival after death is the expression that aptly describes these writ petitions relating to companyl mining by private agencies long after a prohibitory legislation and an order by this Court repelling the challenges to the vires of that Act.
K. Ganguli, for the Petitioner in W.P. Nos.
Genl.,
N. Jha for the Petitioners in W.P. No.
Lal Narain Sinha Att.
Lal Narain Sinha Att.
and Rathin Dass for the Respondents West of Bengal in W.P. Nos.
P. Jha for the Petitioners in W.P. 1648/79.
Parliament by the Coal Mines Nationalisation Amendment Act, 1976 Act No.
