Court : Chhattisgarh
..... may be, (a) has undertaken reconnaissance operations or prospecting operations, as the case may be, to establish mineral resources in such land; (b) has not committed any breach of the terms and conditions of the reconnaissance permit or the prospecting licence; (c) has not become ineligible under the provisions of this act; and (d) has not failed to apply for grant of prospecting licence or mining lease, as the case may be, within three months after the expiry of reconnaissance permit or prospecting licence ..... it is not intended to take away from those authorities the powers and discretions properly vested in them by law and to substitute the courts as the bodies making the decisions. ..... it is by now well settled that judicial review of the administrative action/quasi-judicial orders passed by the government is limited only to correcting the errors of law or fundamental procedural requirements which may lead to manifest injustice. ..... shortly put, the grounds upon which an administrative action is subject to control by judicial review can be classified as under: (i) illegality: this means the decision-maker must understand correctly the law that regulates his decision-making power and must give effect to it. ..... in view of the aforesaid settled position of law, it is difficult to accept the submissions of mr krishnan that the order dated 27-9-2001 suffers from any legal or procedural infirmity. .....
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