Crackdown on mining mafia, 6 tractor-trailers impounded in Paonta Sahib

Tribune News Service

Solan, December 15

In a major crackdown on mining mafia, as many as six tractor-trailers engaged in mining were impounded by officials in the Paonta Sahib subdivision of Sirmaur district today.

Team comprising SDM Vivek Mahajan, DSP Bir Bahadur, DFO Kunal Angrish and mining official descended on the riverbed of Yamuna and its adjoining forest area and impounded six tractor-trailers. Some of the vehicles were full of quarry material which had mined illegally from the riverbed.

DSP Paonta Sahib said, “Some tractor-trailers were plying without registration numbers while others had been registered for agriculture use and these had been diverted for this nefarious activity. Two were found engaged in illegal mining in the forest area near Yamuna riverbed against whom FIRs are being registered.”

The officials carried out the raid in a planned manner and even chased the vehicles below the Yamuna bridge though the drivers managed to flee towards, Uttarakhand, informed the SDM.

The illegal and unscientific mining at various places like riverbed of Yamuna river, Yamuna bridge, Bhuppur, Rampurghat, etc., is not only playing havoc with the environment but it was also causing loss to the government revenue.

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