The Supreme Court of India has ruled that the State government is fully empowered to enhance royalty and dead rent rates during the subsistence of a mining lease, even if the executed lease deed does not contain any express provision permitting such an increase. A bench comprising Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Satish Chandra Sharma
Silence In Mining Lease Deed Cannot Foreclose State’s Power To Revise Royalty Rates: Supreme Court
