Anti-Corruption Movement, Coimbatore, flags ‘illegal’ mining activities, seeks inquiry by retired High Court Judge

Flagging ‘illegal’ mining activities, Anti-Corruption Movement, Coimbatore, has demanded to represent an Inquiry Commission headed by a retired High Court Judge to find the corruption and urge due enactment against authorities officials complicit successful the crime.

Officials who had permitted amerciable mining activities indispensable beryllium identified for stringent action, and fines indispensable beryllium imposed connected the quarry operators who had indulged successful amerciable mining activities transparently, caput of the Anti-Corruption Movement N.K. Velu said.

The Inquiry Commission indispensable survey the contamination caused to groundwater successful the surroundings of the mines, and the interaction it has caused to houses, nationalist roads, h2o bodies, and lasting crops successful the surroundings.

The survey should besides find the interaction of the usage of explosives for quarrying connected livestock, birds, humans, and plants.

Officials complicit successful the transgression indispensable beryllium punished nether Section 311(2)(b) with dismissal oregon simplification successful rank, and the ill-earned properties indispensable beryllium confiscated.

In a practice to the Chief Secretary, Mr. Velu, formerly Additional Superintendent of Police, Vigilance and Anti-Corruption, sought to cognize wherefore the Director of Department of Geology and Mining had not complied with the Government Order No. 73, Personnel and Administrative Reforms Department, to the petition submitted by the Movement connected January 9, 2026.

The bid of the Personnel and Administrative Reforms Department states that an acknowledgement indispensable beryllium issued wrong 3 days of the receipt of grievance petitions, and that it should beryllium redressed wrong a maximum play of 1 month.

Citizens approaching authorities departments with their grievance petitions indispensable beryllium informed of the advancement successful redressing the same. In case, for immoderate reason, further clip is required for its finalisation, the petitioner indispensable beryllium informed successful penning of the extended play of clip for its finalisation, the authorities bid said.

The petition submitted during January highlighted the “illegalities” successful the signifier of beingness of an unauthorised checkpost astatine Govindanaickanur.

The petition urged the Director of Geology and Mines to garbage support for mining connected a 10-acre country successful Sokkanur colony successful Kinathukadavu Taluk.

The projected tract for quarrying was adjacent to a nationalist roadworthy and irrigation canal. Wells volition adust up if it is permitted, and livelihood of farmers volition beryllium affected, the petition said.