Top Law News Supreme Court questions Centre power to allocate coal blocks January 24, 2013 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Supreme Court questions Centre power to allocate coal blocks The Supreme Court on questioned the Centre’s power to allocate coal blocks to companies, saying it has a lot of “legal explanation” to do as the statutory Act empowers only the states to undertake this task. The apex court said that the Centre cannot undermine the Mines and Minerals Act which has given no power to it to allocate […] Read more » Coal Mines (Nationalisation) Act ex-Navy chief L Ramdas and former Cabinet secretary TSR Subramanian former CEC N Gopalaswami justices RM Lodha and J Chelameswar legal explanation Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act Mines and Minerals Act Supreme Court