Four firms booked for making bundhs on Yamuna river

Shiv Kumar Sharma

Tribune News Service

Yamunanagar, June 6

Four mining companies have been booked for causing blockage in the Yamuna by constructing unauthorised bundhs on the river at Gumthala, Sandhali (Nagli), Pobari and Model Town Karera villages to undertake mining activities on the riverbed.

In four complaints to the police, Satyendra and Jasvinder Singh, Sub-Divisional Officers (SDOs) of the Irrigation Department of Yamunanagar district, said that Radaur SDM Kanwar Singh; Deputy Superintendent of Police, Radaur, Kushal Pal; Executive Engineer, Water Resources Division, Jagadhri, Vinod Kumar; and they visited different places along the Yamuna to check legal and illegal mining activities on June 5.

He said that during the visit, they found that representatives of M/s Joginder Singh, M/s MP Traders, M/s Development Strategies India Limited and M/s Kawaljeet Singh Batra had caused obstruction by constructing unauthorised bundhs on the Yamuna in Gumthala, Sandhali (Nagli), Pobari and MT Karera villages respectively.

Four FIRs were registered under Section 431 (commit mischief by injury to river or channel) of the IPC and Section 45 of the Canal and Drainage Act, Haryana, at Jathlana police station on June 5.

Vinod Kumar, XEN, said that the representatives of the mining companies were asked to remove the bundhs immediately.

Sources said that illegal mining on a large scale is being undertaken in the Yamuna and one of its tributaries Somb river.