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Secondly, district mining officer will coordinate with RTA in this regard, so that whenever there are any cases of illegal mining, owners of vehicles will also be booked. Directions have been issued to the executive engineer-cum-district mining officer to collect details of such vehicles and machinery. If the registration number is not displayed on the vehicle and the RTA has not given any detail regarding such vehicle to the district mining officer, it would be impounded. "If the site of illegal mining belongs to the panchayat, the village panchayat level officer and if the site belongs to an individual, then that owner or those owners would be responsible and booked.In recent incidents of illegal mining in Derabassi and Zirakpur, it came to fore that vehicles being used in the illegal mining bear no registration numbers. MOHALI: If vehicles being used for mining are found without registration number, they will be impounded, said deputy commissioner Gurpreet Kaur Sapra while presiding over a meeting of officials of various departments on the implementation of sand management system as a pilot project in the district on Monday.Sapra said, "It has been observed that vehicles and machinery being used in mining are unregistered with RTA or they do not display their registration numbers..