{"id":6288,"date":"2014-09-01T18:09:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T18:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/sccblog\/?p=6288"},"modified":"2015-10-14T15:45:01","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T10:15:01","slug":"attorney-general-asks-supreme-court-to-exempt-40-functional-coal-blocks-from-cancellation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2014\/09\/01\/attorney-general-asks-supreme-court-to-exempt-40-functional-coal-blocks-from-cancellation\/","title":{"rendered":"Attorney General asks Supreme Court to exempt 40 functional coal blocks from cancellation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p ><b><span>Supreme Court<\/span><\/b><span  >: Deliberating upon the fate of the coal blocks declared illegal and arbitrary by the court via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/LoginForNewsLink.aspx?q=2014_SCC_OnLine_SC_634&amp;db=0 \">order<\/a> dated <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.scconline.com\/post\/2014\/08\/25\/coal-block-allocation-since-1993-by-the-central-government-illegal.aspx\">25.08.2014<\/a>, the Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi asked the Court to exempt around 40 coal blocks from cancellation as the same are already functioning and producing coal and 6 other coal blocks which are in ready to produce coal shortly. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p ><span  >The Court had in it\u2019s earlier order stated that the allocations made through, both, the Screening Committee route and the Government dispensation route were arbitrary, thereby declaring the coal blocks to be illegal and unconstitutional. 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