MMDR Act Archives

States and Taxation of Mineral Rights and Land

Experts Corner Tarun Jain (Tax Practitioner)

States’ Taxation of Mineral Rights and Land: Supreme Court Expounds the Law

by Tarun Jain*

Op Eds OP. ED.

Illegal Mica Mining in India and Its Impact on Child Labour

by Priyadarshini Goenka* and Vaibhav Kashyap**

Case Briefs Supreme Court

SC explains Object and Purpose of inclusion of Sec. 10-A of MMDR Act by MMDR Amendment Act, 2015

“Section 10A(1) of the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957 mandates that all applications received prior to 12-01-2015 shall become ineligible”.

Case Briefs High Courts

Kar HC | Whether Magistrate is required to give elaborate reasons for taking cognizance and summoning the accused in view of report under S. 173 CrPC? Legal position discussed

Karnataka High Court: Michael Cunha J., dismissed the writ petition being found that the criminal action was rightly initiated against the petitioner.