Madras HC forms SIT to probe illegal sand mining in Kovai
Madras high court has constituted a special investigation team (SIT) comprising two IPS officers to probe the illegal sand mining by brick kilns operating near the reserve forests of Coimbatore. A special division bench appointed G Nagajothi, superintendent of police, State Crime Records Bureau, Chennai, and F Shashank Sai, SP, Organised Crime Intelligence Unit as members of SIT. The court directed the team to begin its investigation into the cases already registered by police and to register fresh cases if it came across a larger conspiracy that resulted in the creation of massive trenches near the forest areas, putting wild animals in danger. The court further directed the district authorities to obliterate illegal bridges and roads put up by the illegal miners and restore all water bodies in the area to their original form.
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