Nos.7315-7316 of 2021 Page 8 of 14and Hydrocarbon Energy) Concessional Rules, 201613 as amended by modification dated 02.11.2021, on satisfaction of four conditions. First, the beneficiary must be a government company. Second, the renewal of mining lease (RML) application should have been made at least three months before expiry. Third, the renewal applications were pending and were not rejected as of 12.01.2015, the commencement date of the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment, 2015 Act. Fourth, the leases did not suffer a lapse. It is submitted that these four conditions are satisfied. • TGP relies on Section 4A(4)14 of the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation), Act 1957, as there is no express order by the State Government declaring that the subject leases have lapsed. For the same, reliance is placed on the judgment of this Court in Common Cause v. Union of India15. Thus, the submission is that, though the leases have been non-operational for nearly