Dumka administration seizes nearly 40 overloaded trucks with minerals

Dumka: A team of the district administration has seized around 40 trucks overloaded with stone chips at different locations in the district. A total of 16 accused, most of them being drivers and cleaners of the seized transport vehicles, were also arrested during the six hours long administrative drive Dumka SP Ambar Lakra also accompanied the deputy commissioner Ravi Shankar Shukla and they inspected the vehicles at nearly half a dozen spots along different transportation routes when they found the minerals being transported without any valid documents.

The seizure of trucks carrying illegally procured minerals particularly when the ambit of the ongoing investigation
by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) into the illegal mining menace has been gradually widening. The administration has swung into action and nabbed a few mining mafias against whom FIRs were lodged in connection with the illegal mining activities at Shikaripara police station.

The entire operation is however being viewed in the backdrop of the recent directive of chief minister Hemant Soren to the respective district administration to launch a crackdown against illegal mining in respective areas of their jurisdiction. The administrative team firstly intercepted transport vehicles at the Phulo Jhano Chowk along the bypass ring road and culminated at sarasdangal and other deep pockets of the Shikaripara police station area.