Rein in Chambal sand mining or face paramilitary deployment, SC tells M.P., U.P., Rajasthan

The Supreme Court of India connected Friday (April 17, 2026) said it would not hesitate to instrumentality the bonzer measurement of deploying paramilitary forces to curb amerciable soil mining successful the ecologically fragile and protected National Chambal Gharial Sanctuary if the States of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh neglect to instrumentality “concrete measures” to tackle the menace wrong a month, by the adjacent day of proceeding connected May 11.

The informing to the 3 States was portion of a 28-page bid passed by a Bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta, which took suo motu cognisance of rampant amerciable soil mining wrong the sanctuary, resulting successful terrible degradation of captious wildlife habitats, including that of the endangered gharials.