{"id":34902,"date":"2014-08-26T11:48:53","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T06:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=34902"},"modified":"2014-08-26T11:48:53","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T06:18:53","slug":"allocation-coal-block-amounts-largesse-sc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/allocation-coal-block-amounts-largesse-sc","title":{"rendered":"Allocation of a coal block amounts to largesse: SC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/supreme-court-seeks-time-frame-for-deciding-mercy-pleas\/supreme-court-209\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19651\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"19651\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/supreme-court-seeks-time-frame-for-deciding-mercy-pleas\/supreme-court-209\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/04\/supreme-court1.png?fit=135%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"135,144\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"supreme court\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/04\/supreme-court1.png?fit=135%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/04\/supreme-court1.png?fit=135%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-19651\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/supreme-court1.png?resize=183%2C195&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"supreme court\" width=\"183\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a>The Supreme court today said that allocation of a coal block by the Centre amounts to grant of largesse, rejecting government contention that it is only a first statutory step.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe allocation of coal block by the Central Government results in the selection of beneficiary which entitles the beneficiary to get the prospecting licence or mining lease from the state government. Obviously, allocation of a coal block amounts to grant of largesse,\u201d the bench headed by Chief Justice R M Lodha said.<\/p>\n<p>The bench rejected the contentions raised by the then Attorney General G E Vahanvati who had submitted that allocation itself did not confer any right on the allottees to mine the block and lot of procedures are to be followed thereafter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are unable to accept the submission of the learned Attorney General that allocation of coal block does not amount to grant of largesse,\u201d the bench also comprising justices Madan B Lokur and Kurian Joseph said.<\/p>\n<p>The bench said, \u201cIt is true that allocation letter by itself does not authorise the allottee to win or mine the coal but nevertheless the allocation letter does confer a very important right upon the allottee to apply for grant of prospecting licence or mining lease.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Centre had said that an allocatee does not get right to win or mine the coal on allocation and, therefore, an allocation letter does not result in windfall gain for the allocatee.<\/p>\n<p>The bench, however, said that allocation letter issued by the Central Government provides rights to the allottees for obtaining the coal mines leases for their end-use plants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe banks, financial institutions, land acquisition authorities, revenue authorities and various other entities and so also the state governments, who ultimately grant prospecting licence or mining lease, as the case may be, act on the basis of the letter of allocation issued by the Central Government,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe right to obtain prospecting licence or mining lease of the coal mine admittedly is dependent upon the allocation letter. The allocation letter, therefore, confers a valuable right in favour of the allottee,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme court today said that allocation of a coal block by the Centre amounts to grant of largesse, rejecting government contention that it is only a first statutory step. \u201cThe allocation of coal block by the Central Government results in the selection of beneficiary which entitles the beneficiary to get the prospecting licence or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":19610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[29544,2246,28443,25114,12630,47765,47726,47774,47775,23371],"class_list":["post-34902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-law-news","tag-allocation-of-a-coal-block-amounts","tag-attorney-general-g-e-vahanvati","tag-chief-justice-r-m-lodha","tag-justice-kurian-joseph","tag-justice-madan-b-lokur","tag-news","tag-supreme-court","tag-todays-news","tag-todays-top-news","tag-top-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Allocation of a coal block amounts to largesse: SC<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Allocation of a coal block amounts to largesse: SC\" \/>\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\/news\/allocation-coal-block-amounts-largesse-sc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Allocation of a coal block amounts to largesse: SC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Allocation of a coal block amounts to largesse: SC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/allocation-coal-block-amounts-largesse-sc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LegalindiaCom\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-08-26T06:18:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/04\/supreme-court.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"135\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"144\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Legal India Admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Legal India Admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/allocation-coal-block-amounts-largesse-sc#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/allocation-coal-block-amounts-largesse-sc\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Legal India Admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/5bed6309aad9141bf373167e6730d0fc\"},\"headline\":\"Allocation of a coal block amounts to largesse: SC\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-08-26T06:18:53+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/allocation-coal-block-amounts-largesse-sc\"},\"wordCount\":357,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/allocation-coal-block-amounts-largesse-sc#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/2\\\/2012\\\/04\\\/supreme-court.png?fit=135%2C144&ssl=1\",\"keywords\":[\"Allocation of a coal block amounts\",\"Attorney General G.E. 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