Govt Officials Get Court Notice Over Braj Mining

Govt Officials Get Court Notice Over Braj Mining Dated: 19 Feb 2009, 0504 hrs IST, Source: TNN JAIPUR: Text: The Rajasthan High Court on Wednesday issued a contempt of court notice to former secretary of mines department Ashok Singhvi, former Bharatpur district collector Anand Kumar, the then superintending engineer MP Meena and mines engineer, Bharatpur, Abdul Latif for failing to stop mining in the Braj region, despite a court order. Justice Dalip Singh of the Jaipur bench issued the notice following a petition filed by Manmandir Seva Sansthan, an organisation fighting for the protection of the Braj area. The Sansthan had filed the contempt petition after they discovered that mining was still being carried out in certain areas of Braj despite a ban on it. The activists of the organisation had also been holding demonstrations in certain parts of Bharatpur demanding an end to the mining in the area. Justice Singh, in a previous order, had restrained 117 licence holders from carring out any fresh mining activity in the area who had complained that their mining leases were prematurely terminated. The court had not only endorsed the termination of the leases but also ordered that the lease-holders shall be allowed to take away the excavated material but incase any licensee violates the court order, then no such license holder shall be allowed to take away any excavated material form the pit.

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