Illegal mining razes Aravallis despite FIRs
Gurugram, July 2 -- Despite repeated crackdowns and court orders, illegal stone quarrying continues to plague Haryana's Aravalli belt, with the Haryana State Enforcement Bureau (HSEnB) filing another FIR in Nuh's Patharali village on June 30. Activists claim miners from neighbouring Rajasthan allegedly encroach into Haryana's territory to extract stones, threatening ecological stability in the region.
According to the FIR, the latest encroachment was detected during a joint inspection on June 29. Officials from multiple departments - including assistant mining engineer Sohit Kumar, forest range officer Rakesh Kumar from Ferozepur Jhirka, ASI Rakesh Kumar of the State Enforcement Bureau, revenue officials, and panchayat representatives such as Sakeel Khan, brother of the village sarpanch - participated in the survey.
The inspection team found that mining leaseholders from Rajasthan had extended their operations into the protected hilly terrain of Patharali, under Ferozepur Jhirka tehsil. The village shares a porous border with Udaylakabas in Rajasthan's Pahadi tehsil, Deeg district, allowing easy cross-border incursions.
Preliminary findings linked the activity to mining lease number 698/2003, held by Pawan Kumar Jain, a resident of Ferozepur Jhirka.
Officials noted that the leaseholder had neither erected proper boundary markers nor maintained the mandatory buffer zone, in violation of mining and environmental safety norms. GPS-tagged photographs of the encroachment were taken as evidence....
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