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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JAMMU & KASHMIR AND LADAKH AT JAMMU
MR. JUSTICE RAHUL BHARTI, J
Sharma Lime Kiln, Manthal, Udhampur through its Proprietor Sh. N. J. Durani, S/o Sh. B. L. Durani – Appellant
Versus
Union of India through Secretary to Govt. of India , Ministry of Coal and Mines, New Delhi. – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
1. On account of an intervening development in the form of adjudication of an identical writ petition, the disposal of this writ petition is being sought on behalf of the petitioners by laying a motion to said effect by filing IA No. 01/2018 read with CM No. 8456/2021 & CM No. 5801/2023. This Court sees a valid invitational basis for according adjudication to this writ petition following the similar track as cited on behalf of the petitioners through the medium of the aforesaid three applications. However, before coming to end result, a brief reference to the subject matter of the present writ petition and also in relation to the identical disposed of writ petition needs to be set out.
2. The institution of this writ petition came to take place on 14.12.2005 involving fourteen petitioners, all being small-scale industrial concerns, then engaged in manufacturing of chemicals/fertilizers/ metals/briquettes in the then State of Jammu & Kashmir and all registered, as such, with respective District Industries Centre under J&K Industries Department.
3. In relation to the manufacturing activity an essential raw material required by the petitioners’ units used to be steam/slack coa
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