Tamil Nadu’s largest beach sand miner and exporter S. Vaikundarajan of V.V. Minerals on Monday complained to the Madras High Court that the State government has begun to issue mining lease termination notices despite a batch of cases pending before the court since 2015.
Appearing before the first Division Bench of Chief Justice Sanjay V. Gangapurwala and Justice D. Bharatha Chakravarthy, senior counsel V. Raghavachari, representing Mr. Vaikundarajan, said, the notices had been issued by relying upon reports filed by amicus curiae V. Suresh.
He wondered how government could issue the mining lease termination notices, after the payment of royalty, on the basis of the amicus curiae’s reports which had arrived at the quantum of monazite, a radio active mineral, in the beach sand mineral (BSM) stocks only on notional basis.
