Gujarat Court April 1972 Judgments

Junagadh Salt and Allied Chemical Works Vs. the State of Gujarat and o ...

Court: Gujarat

Reported in: AIR1973Guj68

Sheth, J.1. The petitioner are a firm manufacturing salt at the Salt Works at Bherai in Rajula Taluka of Amreli District. The form Junagadh State and granted them a lease of land on 5th December 1943. fro the purpose of manufacturing salt. On 31st January 1969 the petitioner made an application to the State Government though the collector of Amreli for obtaining lease in respect of 800 acres of land at Bherai in the vicinity of their Salt Works and deposited a sum of Rs. 200/- for the purpose as required by the Rules made in that behalf. On 7th February 1969 K. S. Hindocha of Messrs. Hindocha Salt Works respondent No. 3 to this petition -- also made an application to the State Government on behalf of his firm for obtain lease of the said land at Bherai for manufacturing salt. chronologically the application made by K. S. Hindocha was subsequent to the application made by the petitioner. On 6th September 1969 the collector rejected the petitioner application. On 15th September 1969 the ...