JUDGMENT 1. Heard learned counsel for the parties. 2. Learned counsel for the petitioner drew our attention to preliminary submissions made by Union of India and in particular to what was asserted in para-2 thereof. 3. Our attention was also drawn to para-5 of its preliminary reply by Union of India pleading that all pending applications are not made per-se ineligible. Sub-section (2) makes several categories of applications eligible. While drawing our attention to para-5, learned counsel for the petitioner further drew our attention to the fact that pending disposal of the writ application, the application moved by the petitioner came to be rejected by the State and he further submits on instructions that challenge there to was made before the Tribunal constituted under the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Act, 2015 (for short 'MMDR Act' ahead) and having failed therein challenge has been made before this Court and the matter is pending before learned Single Judge. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that in this writ application challenge was made to the amendment carried out in 2015 to the MMDR Act. Pending this challenge, the Hon'ble Apex Court in the case of Bhushan Power and Steel Limited Vs. S.L. Seal and Ors., (2017) 2 SCC 125 dealt with the consequences of the amendment and interpretation thereof and have issued necessary directions of the manner in which pending applications were to be treated. Consequently, we are of the view that the question of validity of the amendment act need not be gone into by this Court since the rejection of petitioner's application is separately under adjudication before the learned Single Judge. 5. In view of the developments noted hereinabove and keeping in mind the directions of Hon'ble Supreme Court in Bhushan Power & Steel Limited (supra), we find that nothing survives in this writ application at this stage. 6. Accordingly, we dispose of this writ application as infructuous while at the same time leaving the issues open raised by the petitioner in so far as writ application pending before learned Single Judge. Nothing stated herein shall have any impact or consequence on the rights of the petitioner or of the State or of the Union of India.