{"id":192522,"date":"2008-07-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-28T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/ultra-vs-union-on-29-july-2008"},"modified":"2015-11-22T09:11:58","modified_gmt":"2015-11-22T03:41:58","slug":"ultra-vs-union-on-29-july-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/ultra-vs-union-on-29-july-2008","title":{"rendered":"Ultra vs Union on 29 July, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Gujarat High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Ultra vs Union on 29 July, 2008<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: Mohit S. D.H.Waghela, D.H.Waghela<\/div>\n<pre>  \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t\n\n \n \n\n\n\t \n\nLPA\/745\/2008\t 2\/ 2\tORDER \n \n \n\n\t\n\n \n\nIN\nTHE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD\n \n\n \n\n\n \n\nLETTERS\nPATENT APPEAL No. 745 of 2008\n \n\nIn\n\n\n \n\nSPECIAL\nCIVIL APPLICATION No. 25066 of 2006\n \n\nwith\n \n\nCIVIL\nAPPLICATION No. 8675 of\n2008 \n \n=========================================\n\n\n \n\nULTRA\nTECH CEMENT LTD. - Appellant(s)\n \n\nVersus\n \n\nUNION\nOF INDIA &amp; 3 - Respondent(s)\n \n\n=========================================\n \nAppearance : \nMR\nTUSHAR MEHTA for Appellant(s) : 1, \nNone for Respondent(s) : 1 -\n4. \n=========================================\n\n\n \n\t  \n\t \n\t  \n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\nCORAM\n\t\t\t: \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\nHONOURABLE\n\t\t\tTHE ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE MR. M.S.SHAH\n\t\t\n\t\n\t \n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\n \n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\nand\n\t\t\n\t\n\t \n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\n \n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\nHONOURABLE\n\t\t\tMR.JUSTICE D.H.WAGHELA\n\t\t\n\t\n\n \n\n\t\t\t\t\tDate\n: 29\/07\/2008 \n\n \n\nORAL\nORDER<\/pre>\n<p>(Per<br \/>\n: HONOURABLE THE ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE MR. M.S.SHAH)<\/p>\n<p>\tMr.\n<\/p>\n<p>Tushar Mehta, learned counsel for the appellant submits that the<br \/>\nassertion made by respondent No.3 in his affidavit-in-reply filed on<br \/>\nbehalf of the Commissioner of Geology and Mining, in paragraph<br \/>\n13(iii)(b) that \u00fdSRespondent is of the view that this provision<br \/>\n[cost of production may be<br \/>\nconsidered to represent the pits&#8217; mouth value of the mineral] has now<br \/>\nbeen withdrawn and Government is free to compare prices obtained<br \/>\nthrough various methods in order to arrive at a lower but just and<br \/>\nfair royalty rate\u00fd\u00fd is without any basis.\n<\/p>\n<p>\tNotice<br \/>\nreturnable on 6.8.2008.\n<\/p>\n<p>\tDirect<br \/>\nservice is permitted on respondents Nos. 2 to 4.  Respondent No.1<br \/>\nshall be served through Speed Post Acknowledgment  Due and also by<br \/>\nserving an advance copy on the learned Additional Solicitor General.\n<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t(M.S. Shah,<br \/>\nActg. C.J.)<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t(D.H. Waghela,<br \/>\nJ.)<\/p>\n<p>*\/Mohandas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gujarat High Court Ultra vs Union on 29 July, 2008 Bench: Mohit S. D.H.Waghela, D.H.Waghela LPA\/745\/2008 2\/ 2 ORDER IN THE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD LETTERS PATENT APPEAL No. 745 of 2008 In SPECIAL CIVIL APPLICATION No. 25066 of 2006 with CIVIL APPLICATION No. 8675 of 2008 ========================================= ULTRA TECH CEMENT LTD. &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gujarat-high-court","category-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ultra vs Union on 29 July, 2008 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/ultra-vs-union-on-29-july-2008\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ultra vs Union on 29 July, 2008 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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