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A husbandman has filed a nationalist involvement litigation petition earlier Madurai Bench of Madras High Court seeking extortion of life, environment, h2o resources and cultivation lands of villages surrounding Kallanai successful Kalligudi taluk successful Madurai district.
A Division Bench of Justices G. Jayachandran and K.K. Ramakrishnan ordered announcement to the authorities connected the petition filed by R. Subramaniyan of Kallanai. The petitioner complained astir amerciable quarrying activities that affected the villages.
He said chromatic crushers and bluish metallic quarries were functioning without valid lease, beyond the permitted depth, aft expiry of the lease play and without obtaining mandatory biology clearance.
They were operating successful gross and wilful usurpation of Tamil Nadu Minor Mineral Concession Rules, 1959, Mines Act, 1952, and different applicable statutory provisions, causing superior biology damage, depletion of groundwater resources and demolition of fertile cultivation lands successful the affected villages, helium said.
In cases wherever constricted permissions had been granted, quarrying operations were being carried retired beyond the permitted extent and lease area. High-intensity explosives were being utilized successful a reckless and indiscriminate manner, and successful implicit disregard of statutory information norms, helium said.
Such hazardous blasting of rocks posed a sedate and imminent menace to life, spot and information of villagers. The usage of almighty explosives to interruption stones and rocks had resulted successful ample stone fragments being hurled acold extracurricular the quarry boundaries causing harm to adjacent cultivation lands and the workers. The continued behaviour of specified unsafe activities had created a changeless ambiance of fearfulness and had rendered the country unsafe for habitation and cultivation, helium said.
