This story is from July 2, 2017

CBI books assistant geologist of Kaushambi for criminal misconduct

An assistant geologist posted under district magistrate of Kaushambi district along with eight others were booked by CBI for carrying out illegal mining in the district in 2015 and 2016. CBI had taken up the case on the direction of Allahabad high court in July last year.
CBI books assistant geologist of Kaushambi for criminal misconduct
LUCKNOW: An assistant geologist, posted under district magistrate of Kaushambi district, along with eight others was booked by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for carrying out illegal mining in the district in 2015 and 2016. The CBI had taken up the case on the direction of Allahabad high court in July last year.
Launching a preliminary inquiry thereafter, the agency started examining the role of officer involved with process of allowing mining of minor minerals such as stones, gravel, clay and sand which are considered government property, according to Mines and Minerals (development and regulation) Act of 1957.

A man named Amar Singh had filed a public interest litigation before the high court in April 2016 representing before the court that without mining lease hundreds of trucks are continuously dredging and transporting sand from Kaushambi. And some contractors were also using JCB machines to excavate the sand. Both Ganga and Yamuna flow through the district that lies next to Allahabad.
While the high court had directed the then district magistrate to look into the charges, the court asked the central agency to take up the case later on. While probing the charges, CBI found out that Arvind Kumar, who was posted as assistant geologist under the then district magistrate, entered into a criminal
conspiracy with private persons who were into illegal sand dredging business.
Besides Arvind, eight people involved with the illegal mining process too have been named in the regular case filed by special crime unit III at Delhi on June 30. The others have been identified as Amit Yadav, JP Pandey, Anil Yadav, Rashid Ajij alias Ranu, Mohammad Rizwan, Narinderpal Singh, Baljeet Singh, Harbir Singh alias Kake besides other unknown persons. CBI is probing charges of illegal mining at Shamli, Fatehpur, Hamirpur, Siddharthanagar and Deoria districts besides Kaushambi. Incidentally, former mining minister and SP leader Gayatri Prajapati is lodged in Lucknow jail in connection with an FIR filed under rape charges in February this year.
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