Tractor-trailer owner booked for illegal mining

Tribune News Service

Panchkula, August 12

The local police have registered a case against unidentified person for illegal mining in a village near Raipur Rani, besides damaging wall of a house. In his complaint to the police, Shiv Charan, guard of the Mining and Geology Department, stated that he along with Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) Uttam Singh and the RTA staff were on a checking drive in the Raipur Rani area.

He said a tractor-trailer filled with sand was seen near Bhadana Kalan village coming from the Moli village side. When they directed driver of the tractor-trailer to stop he turned the vehicle towards Bhadana Kalan village, he added. Driver after entering the village hit the wall of a house damaging it completely, he said.

When he along with the police team visited Bhadana Kalan village the tractor-trailer owner had fled with the vehicle, he said. The Raipur Rani police have registered the case against unknown owner of the tractor-trailer under Sections 379 and 427, IPC, and Section 21 (4), Mining Act.