The court also ordered halt to mining within 45 meters of any road and railway track with immediate effect and ordered a CBI inquiry against all those mining officials who were posted in Makrana during this violation by identifying them.
The petitioner had identified 61 such mines which continued to be operational despite the stay by the court in 1996, leading to damage of the railway track in Makrana.
The SKVS had filed a petition making a plea to vacate the stay in 1997 but the court rejected its plea upholding its earlier decision.
Taking a serious note of the non-compliance of the court's order, the court also imposed an additional penalty on these 61 miners of a cost equal to 10 times of the total mineral extracted from these 61 mines so far.
A division bench comprising chief justice Arun Kumar Mishra and justice Kailash Chandra Joshi, while taking a serious note of the mining in Makrana leading to violation of the mining rules which prohibit mining in 45 meters of any road or railway track, voiced its anger against mining officials and miners saying "if you are not stopped, you would dig up even the High Court." PTI CORR