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Police Seized 7 Trucks Carrying Illegal Excavated Soil

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Thoubal, Sept. 4,

 

A Team of Thoubal Police Seized 7 (seven) trucks carrying illegally excavated Hill soil from Waithou Protected Forest at around 7:30 pm at last Night.

Talking to Media Persons, Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) Thoubal, N. Ganesh IFS said in his Office, the seized trucks & offenders were handed over to Thoubal Forest Ranger, S. Shamungou and the case was compounded and a hefty sum of Rs.1,00,000/- was fined by the DFO, Thoubal Forest Division.

DFO, Thoubal N.Ganesh further sent a warning message that no one should extract any hill earth within his jurisdiction.

He also cited High Court order dated 8th August 2018, which quotes” Any form of unregulated and illegal excavation of soil of any type is prohibited and banned, irrespective of the location in the State”. 

He further quoted that Hill Earth can only be extracted after requisite Forest clearance along with permission under Manipur Minor minerals Act & Rules, EPA.

How the forest areas are being allotted to private individuals has been a matter of great surprise to the people.

So far none of the officials responsible for allotment of the land to private individuals have been punished and government fails to make any effort to investigate over the matter.

The DFO appealed the people to illegal excavation to stop immediately, He also thanked the Police for their humble help.

As per report available with this news paper most of the excavation works is being carried out during night time.

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