Yamunanagar: Screening plant under lens for fake purchase of minerals

Shiv Kumar Sharma

Yamunanagar, January 19

A screening plant in Yamunanagar district has allegedly shown a fake purchase of about 30,000 metric tonnes (MT) of mining minerals in its record. According to information, the royalty, price and penalty of the minerals amount to Rs 90.10 lakh.

Only on paper

The lease/rent holders of our screening plant have shown purchase of mining minerals only on paper. But, there has been no physical dispatch of the minerals from Panchkula. — Dipansh Kumar, Complainant

The lease/rent holders of the screening plant, situated in the Bilaspur area of Yamunanagar district, have mentioned in its record that they bought mining mineral from a firm, based in Raipur Rani village in Panchkula district.

However, as per sources, the purchase of the said mineral was allegedly done only on papers. In fact, they got the mineral through illegal mining from Yamunangar district itself. On the complainant of Dipansh Kumar of Sandhali village in Yamunanagar district, a case was registered against Arvind, Ravi, both residents of Panipat district and Anil Kumar of Sonepat district under Sections 420, 120-B of the IPC and Section 21 (1) of the Mining Act at the Bilaspur police station on January 17, 2024.The complainant said they gave their screening plant on lease/rent to Arvind and his accomplices in 2022.

He said later they came to know that the leaseholders of their screening plant were purchasing only e-transit passes/eRawana from a firm (Mineral Dealer Licence Holder) of Raipur Rani village.

“The lease/rent holders of our screening plant have shown purchase of mining minerals only on papers. But, there has been no physical dispatch of the minerals from Panchkula,” the complainant said. He said when they tried to stop them from doing this illegal business of mining minerals, they threatened them with dire consequences.