On October 3, 1966, this Court pronounced judgment in Bihar Mines Ltd. vs Union of India (supra) holding therein that the whole or that part of the estate or tenure com prised in an) ' lease of mines and minerals would, with effect from the date of vesting, be deemed to have been leased out by the State Government to the holder of the subsisting lease (i.e. the first lessee) for the remainder of the period of the lease and that the statutory lease thus held by the head lessee from the State Government under section 10 of the Bihar Land Reforms Act, would be a new lease granted after October 25. 1949, and that the sub leases would also be deemed to be new leases granted by the new lessee from the State Government, as the rights of the original lessee under the original lease had ceased on the vesting of the estate, and he was to be deemed to have got a new lease from the State.