KANPUR: In one of the biggest movements towards mining mafia, round 372 vehicles and dumpers carrying illegally mined sand and stones had been impounded through the police in coordination with regional transport place of work (RTO) and mining department on Uttar Pradesh-Madhya Pardesh border in Etawah past due on Thursday evening. The operation persevered till Friday morning.
The drivers of all of the vehicles had been detained and their mobile phones confiscated. The police said that mafia from Madhya Pradesh excavate sand and stones from Chambal and Sindh rivers and smuggle in UP where those are a lot in call for and sell like gold. Nine teams of Etawah police comprising nearly 200 staff, together with 9 SHOs, seven deputy SPs and one additional SP), but even so RTO and mining officials, below the supervision of senior superintendent of police (SSP) Etawah Vaibhav Krishna, impounded 372 vehicles near Tixi temple Chauraha with reference to UP-MP border.
Nearly 1.24 crore of income used to be generated in the operation, which lasted for 6 hours. In the follow-up motion, 10 extra folks had been arrested and 5 four-wheelers had been additionally seized from their ownership.
After receiving a tip-off, the police cordoned off Tixi temple Chauraha in Etawah district at round 2am on Thursday evening. The truck drivers used to park their vehicles in the house after entering UP from Bhind district of Madhya Pradesh.
"We are in the process of identifying the owners of the trucks and dumpers. If found involved mining in an organised way, they will be booked under Gangster Act," the SSP said.
The drivers of all of the vehicles had been detained and their mobile phones confiscated. The police said that mafia from Madhya Pradesh excavate sand and stones from Chambal and Sindh rivers and smuggle in UP where those are a lot in call for and sell like gold. Nine teams of Etawah police comprising nearly 200 staff, together with 9 SHOs, seven deputy SPs and one additional SP), but even so RTO and mining officials, below the supervision of senior superintendent of police (SSP) Etawah Vaibhav Krishna, impounded 372 vehicles near Tixi temple Chauraha with reference to UP-MP border.
Nearly 1.24 crore of income used to be generated in the operation, which lasted for 6 hours. In the follow-up motion, 10 extra folks had been arrested and 5 four-wheelers had been additionally seized from their ownership.
After receiving a tip-off, the police cordoned off Tixi temple Chauraha in Etawah district at round 2am on Thursday evening. The truck drivers used to park their vehicles in the house after entering UP from Bhind district of Madhya Pradesh.
"We are in the process of identifying the owners of the trucks and dumpers. If found involved mining in an organised way, they will be booked under Gangster Act," the SSP said.
372 trucks carrying illegally-mined sand impounded
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