Telangana High Court on Monday directed the Assistant Director of Mining and Geology of Nizamabad district to appear before it for failing to check illegal mining in the district.
The direction was issued by a bench of Chief Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and Justice C.V. Bhaskar Reddy while hearing a PIL petition seeking a direction to contain the alleged illegal mining in Mamidipally Chinnapur forest area of Nizamabad. The petition was filed by a social activist K. Kondal Rao from Hyderabad.
The petitioner claimed that the limited minerals available in the area were on the verge of extinction due to rampant illegal mining in the area. He charged that some officials of the Forest Department had colluded with the persons indulging in illegal mining.
