Pushed on the backfoot by the Supreme Court on the various procedural infirmity in allocation, the AG submitted that decision of coal block allocation to companies is the first stage and firms get rights over coal only when they start mining for which they have to take various clearances.
“No right is created in favour of companies by allocating coal blocks. At the most it can be said that it is is letter of intent,” the AG said, adding that all procedure was followed in the allocations.
