(1.) Delay condoned.
(2.) Leave granted.
(3.) These two appeals task us to interpret relevant clauses of a mining lease deed, read with the applicable statutory provisions and the rules framed thereunder in the context of the power of the lessor (appellant - State [State]) to increase the rate of royalty and dead rent during the subsistence of the lease. Notably, the lease deeds executed by and between the State and the lessees - respondents contain no express provision permitting such increase.