Writ petitions challenging the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Ordinance, 2015, were disposed of as infructuous after the ordinance was enacted as an Act. Petitioners filed independent challenges against the Act.
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HON’BLE THE ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE DILIP B. BHOSALE
AND
HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE S.V. BHATT
WRIT PETITION Nos. 5276, 5561 & 8440 OF 2015
Date: 16.06.2015
W.P.No.5276 of 2015
Between:
Pendekatla Yakaiah & others
… Petitioners
And
Union of India, rep., by its Secretary, Ministry of Law and Justice (Legislative Department), New Delhi & others.
… Respondents
HON’BLE THE ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE DILIP B. BHOSALE
AND
HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE S.V. BHATT
WRIT PETITION Nos. 5276, 5561 & 8440 OF 2015
PC: (per the Hon’ble the Acting Chief Justice Dilip B. Bhosale)
Heard learned counsel for the petitioners.
The instant writ petitions challenge the provisions of the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Ordinance No.3 of 2015 promulgated on 12.01.2015 being illegal, arbitrary, unreasonable, unjust and unconstitutional and prayed for setting it aside.
After filing of these writ petitions, we are informed by the learned counsel for the petitioners that the Ordinance has been approved and made an Act and it has already come into force being Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Act, 2015, and in view thereof, he submits that the instant writ petitions have rendered infructuous. He also submits that the present petitioners have filed independent writ petitions challenging the provisions of the Act.
In the circumstances, these writ petitions are disposed of as infructuous.
Miscellaneous petitions, if any, also stand disposed of.
DILIP B. BHOSALE, ACJ
S.V. BHATT, J
Date: 16.06.2015
ES
Pendekatla Yakaiah & others
Union of India
DILIP B. BHOSALE
S.V. BHATT
As recorded by the court registry
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