JAMMU, June 20 -- Despite clear cut directions from the government as well as the courts with regard to blanket ban on mining viz extraction of stones, sand, marvels, mud and other raw material in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, the mining mafia in Doda District of Jammu province continues to make fortunes for themselves.

However, the government machinery is turning blind eye towards the open loot of Government resources raising direct fingers on all these officials under whose nose the illegal mining is flourishing in Doda District including in the areas falling all along Doda-Thathri, Thathri-Gandoh, Doda Bhaderwah, Thathri-Kishtwar, axis of the National Highway along with the areas around river Chenab at Banderkoot, Chatroo, K...