The Enforcement Directorate has attached dozens of excavators, allegedly used for illegal sand mining in Tamil Nadu, and frozen the company bank accounts of sand lifting contractors, as part of its months-long investigation in the State.
According to sources in the Central agency, over 200 Kobelco brand excavators were attached in connection with the case of illegal sand mining, in which Central and State governments are reported to have incurred a huge revenue loss by way of GST.
Investigators also took steps to freeze company bank accounts of sand lifting contractors who were involved in mining river sand over the past two years, the sources said.
