Managing Contractor

Managing contractor, 'Managing contractor' means the person, or body of persons, who, with the previous consent in writing of the State Govern-ment has entered into an arrangement, contract or understanding, with the owner of a coking coal mine or coke oven plant under which the operations of the coking coal mine or coke oven plant are substantially controlled by such person or body of persons, Industrial Supplies Pvt. Ltd. v. Union of India, AIR 1980 SC 1858: (1980) 4 SCC 341: (1981) 1 SCR 375. [Coking Coal Mines (Nationalisa-tion) Act, 1972, s. 3 (1)]