Mangalore, April 1: A sand mining location was raided by revenue officials led by Bantwal Tahsildar Ravi Chandra Naik on Thursday at Malli along the banks of the Netravathi in Pudu village of Bantwal taluk.
Naik said that following reports about violations of law, he and the Sub-Inspector of Bantwal rural police station raided the location where sand mining was being carried out through machines.
According to law, sand could only be extracted manually, Naik said and added that the lease holder Lateef had permission to carry out mining operations in the area.
Tahsildar said he had written to the Department of Mines and Geology, seeking action in the matter. However, he was not familiar with the action to be taken against the leaseholder and said only the Department of Mines and Geology could handle that.
Deputy Commissioner Subodh Yadav brushed aside the incident stating it was “nothing special”, which happened “more or less every day”. He said the Revenue Department officials had been carrying out several such raids in the last few days, but without the involvement of the Department of Mines and Geology.
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