Summary:
A team went to Kakrali and Mubarakpur, where it found that illegal mining had left craters as deep as 30 feet. MOHALI:The district administration teams raided illegal mining sites at Sundran and Mukandpur village on Tuesday and seized three Poclain hydraulic claw machines, besides three tipper trucks laden with extracted mud. They charged mining contractor Gurvinder Singh and the field’s owner with theft and illegal mining in a case registered at the Derabassi police station.Failure to choke illegal sand mining has prompted the local administration to identify eight sites where night check posts were required. The diggers at Sundran and Mukandpur were mining for mud without a licence. Police arrested three people from the spot, while three more got away.Two separate cases of theft and illegal mining were registered against five of these people at the Mubarkpur police post and the Derabassi police station..