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DVAC raids office in Collectorate

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Press Trust of India Madurai

DVAC officials said documents in the office were being verified to cross-check the area for which actual mining permission was given and if there were any violations.

They had collected various documents including licences issued, officials said.

The raids come a day after the arrest of three officials of the state-owned Tamil Nadu Minerals LTD (TAMIN) for allegedly colluding with granite companies and allowing them to commit violations.

The crackdown on the granite firms was launched against the backdrop of a recent report by former District Collector U Sagayam pegging loss due to illegal quarrying of the blue metal in the region at over Rs 16,000 crore.

 

Several persons, including Durai Dayanidhi, son of Union Minister M K Alagiri, have been booked for alleged illegal sand and granite mining by companies owned by them.

  

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First Published: Sep 02 2012 | 6:25 PM IST

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