The State government on Monday informed the Madras High Court of having prepared another report with respect to the blanket ban in place since 2013 on beach sand mining as well as the transportation of the minerals that had already been mined and stored in godowns.
Appearing before the first Division Bench of Chief Justice Sanjay V. Gangapurwala and Justice D. Bharatha Chakravarthy, Senior Counsel Arvind P. Datar, representing the State government, said the latest report was ready and would be filed in the court in three days.
However, since the Chief Justice would be sitting in the Madurai Bench of the High Court during next week, he decided to list a suo motu public interest litigation petition taken up by the court on the issue in 2015, along with other connected cases, for hearing on December 11.
