SUO MOTU Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN

JUDGEMENT

(1.) ALL these applications have been filed of a direction to the respondent State for allowing the applicants to conduct the mining operations in the areas, which according to them, had been granted to them by virtue of mining lease.

(2.) IT appears that a public interest litigation had been filed bearing D. B. C. W. P. l (PIL) No. 4783/2003, wherein the Division Bench earlier had constituted a Committee to examine the mining operations in various areas at Jaipur and its surrounding areas and the Committee submitted a report stating therein that only 5 owners of the mines were allowed to conduct the mining operations as those mining areas did not fall into the forest area. The report of the Committee was accepted and the writ petition was disposed of finally by order dated 20. 10. 2004. After the matter stood finally concluded, successive applications have been filed by various other mine owners including these applicants seeking a direction from this Court in the same writ petition, which stood disposed of, that they should also be allowed to be impleaded and they be allowed to conduct mining operations in the area where they are operating.