A district management legitimate said that the prohibitory order below Section a hundred and forty four of CrPC changed into issued additionally in opposition to illegal transportation and dumping of coal in noncompliance with the guidelines issued by means of the NGT in advance.
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“Action would be taken in opposition to transportation of coal with out legitimate challan or documents or permission, license issued through the in a position authority to and from the district,” the reliable stated.
The DM’s notification stated that violation of the order shall appeal to penal moves under Section 188 of IPC other than the other applicable legal guidelines.
Environmental activists in Meghalaya and Assam have stated that in spite of the orders and suggestions of the Supreme Court and NGT, banning the indiscriminate and hazardous rat hole coal mining in Meghalaya, the mining continued unlawfully and exported to Bangladesh and other places with the authorities turning a blind eye.
Expressing strong displeasure, a 3-member bench of the Meghalaya High Court led by way of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee these days requested the state Chief Secretary to ensure that illegal coal mining activities are stopped without delay and a committee loose from political interference be installation to monitor the execution of Supreme Court and NGT’s directions and pointers.
In April 2014, NGT had banned the indiscriminate and unsafe rat hollow coal mining in Meghalaya.
Many employees were given trapped inside the illegal and hazardous mines and ultimately died – 5 in May/June ultimate yr but only 3 our bodies were retrieved from the flooded coal mine after nerve-racking efforts for over 27 days in East Jaintia Hills district; in December 2018, in a main tragedy in the identical district, 15 migrant miners from Assam died inside in an abandoned coal mine.
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The 15 miners, whose bodies had been in no way discovered, have been stuck inside the coal mine at a depth of almost 370 feet after a tunnel become flooded with water from the nearby Lytein river. Meghalaya’s Jaintia Hills district shares borders with Assam and Bangladesh.
