The Uttar Pradesh police have registered a case against the owners of nine stone crushers of Yamunanagar district, owners of unknown tractor-trolleys, tippers and earth moving machines for allegedly carrying out illegal mining and illegal transportation of mining minerals in Uttar Pradesh.
On the complaint of Abhilash Chaubey, Mining Inspector of Saharanpur district, a case was registered against the suspects at the Behat police station in Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh on April 14.
As per the FIR, an inspection was carried out by the mining department on the basis of a social media report recently and it was found that huge illegal mining was carried out on government land and in the Yamuna river in the area falling under Aslampur Bartha village of Saharanpur district.
“During the inspection, an illegal mining site/pit was measured with the help of a GPS machine. As per measurement report, illegal mining of about 87,306 MT of mining mineral was carried out from government land and Yamuna river in Aslampur Bartha village,” reads the FIR.
As per the FIR, the inspection team has found enough evidence that the illegal mining mineral/material was transported from the said illegal mining pit to the stone crushers of Haryana using a kachcha path (non-metalled temporary path) through the Yamuna river.
“The said stone crushers are located in Haryana’s side about 500-1000 meter away from the illegal mining pit. The suspects have caused huge revenue loss to the government exchequer carrying out this illegal mining,” the complainant told the police.
