The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) has written to the State Government requesting to provide details of river sand mining and sales in Tamil Nadu Since April 2021, official sources said on Wednesday.
The central agency had written to the authorities in the Water Resources Department calling for the details pertaining to river sand mining, stock yards, modalities of sale and role of officials and private persons in the business, the sources said.
Last Tuesday, ED officials spread into several teams carried out simultaneous searches at 34 locations, including 8 sand mining sites, across 6 districts in the State. Acting on First Information Reports which disclosed “huge illegal mining of river sand”, the officials searched the premises of three businessmen S. Ramachandran, K. Rathinam and Karikalan and Auditor P. Shanmugaraj.
