MAMTA JAIN Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE petitioners by way of present writ petitions have challenged the impugned order issued by the Deputy Secretary, Mining Department, Govt. of Rajasthan on 10/3/2010 reserving the notified Scheduled Tribe areas for mining of major minerals for which Reconnaissance Permits/Prospecting License/ Mining Lease in the specified areas of the State of Rajasthan are to be notified in which the backward class people of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe and other Tribal people live and to allow the mining of minerals reserved in the said notified area only to the Govt. of Rajasthan Undertaking, namely; Rajasthan State Mines & Mineral Limited ('RSMM' for short).

(2.) LEARNED counsel for one of the petitioners, Mr. Pankaj Sharma submits that he has filed an application seeking amendment in writ petition filed by him. Considering the averments made in the application, I.A.No.13382/2012 filed in SBCWP No.7319/2011 under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, seeking amendment of the writ petition is allowed and amended writ petition is taken on record.

(3.) THE relevant paras of the said judgment are quoted below for ready reference:-