The Goa mining matter which was scheduled to be heard today in Supreme Court was adjourned for September 9.
During the last hearing, 26 panchayats from the state’s mining belt had requested the apex court to allow their intervention application. “All mining petitions will be taken together,” Pangam said.
The state government has filed an application before the court to tag it’s mining review petition with the special leave petition filed by mining companies.
In February 2018, the SC had quashed the second renewal of 88 mining leases, bringing the industry to a halt. Last year, the state government filed a review petition against the order. It also sought to tag the review petition with the one filed by mining companies seeking to extend their leases till 2037.qq
In an earlier hearing on August 18, Goa’s advocate general Devidas Pangam, tried to raise the issue of the review petition, but Justice Chandrachud expressed inability to club the review petition with the cases in hand unless directed by the Chief Justice since no Bench can take up any new matter on its own.
On August 17, the Goa government had moved an application through its advocate-on-record Ms Mukti Chowdhary for tagging the Review Petition D.No. 41515 of 2019 in SLP (Civil) no. 32138 of 2015 with SLP (C) no. 29211 of 2019 & Writ Petition No. 21 of 2020 and the Registry has put it before the bench of Chandrachud for consideration.
