1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE FOR RAJASTHAN AT JAIPUR BENCH JAIPUR ORDER S.B.CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO.3910/2000 M/s. National Limestone Co.Pvt.Ltd. & another Versus The State of Rajasthan and another DATE OF ORDER --- July 13,2010 PRESENT HON’BLE MR.JUSTICE PREM SHANKER ASOPA Mr.Anurag Agrawal on behalf of Mr.M.D.Agrawal, for the petitioner Mr.Vyenkatesh Garg on behalf of Mr.G.S.Bafna, Advocate General BY THE COURT The petitioners have filed the present writ petition feeling aggrieved by the action of the respondents in fixing and demanding the revised dead-rent for the period from 9.8.1995 to 8.8.2005 without deciding the renwal application of the petitioners and determining the dead rent on the basis of the revised Schedule-II during the subsistence of the previous lease deed. During the pendency of the writ petition, the renewal of the mining lease has been sanctioned on 3.5.2005 for a period of 20 years from 9.8.1995 and the dead rent has also been fixed including the period in question, at Item No.4 of the sanction order dated 3.5.2005 (Anx.R-A) filed by the respondents along with affidavit dated 28.4.2010 and in pursuance of the aforesaid order dated 3.5.2005, renewal agreement of mining lease has also been executed on 26.5.2005 and registered on 27.5.2005. In view of the above, the writ petition is dismissed as having become infructuous. However, in case the petitioners have any grievance, then, they are at liberty to challenge the order dated 3.5.2005. As regards the vires of the Rajasthan Minor Mineral Concession Rules, 1986, the petitioners are at liberty 2 to challenge the same keeping in view the specific fixation of the dead rent mentioned in the sanction order dated 3.5.2005. (Prem Shanker Asopa) J. गोpa ल