Ten villages in Ghatigaon area are notorious for illegal mining. The process of suspension of arms licences of criminals living in the forest area could not be completed in two months. Concern was expressed by authorities in the meeting on April 20 of the district-level taskforce on illegal mining. According to sources, stone in large quantities was found in the pits around Forest Chowki of Danda Khirak some time before. The forest staff destroyed it. The mafia carries the stone in Charai Dang area at night, sources said. Since this area is very sensitive and there is shortage of forest staff, action there is not possible during the night hours. It was decided in the meeting of task force committee that joint action should be taken in the villages of Bustare area including Dancharai, Tilavali, Antari, Danada Khirakh and Surela but no action was witnessed even after two weeks. According to forest department sources then chief conservator of forest had written a letter to Divisional commissioner highlighting many shortcomings. The district-level taskforce was constituted on 20 July 2000. According to rules, 26 meeting of the force should have been held, only three have taken place. A divisional level taskforce was constituted on November 14, 2004, while only one meeting was held from January 1, 2010, to March 12, 2012. After the Banmore incident arm licence in 44 villages were suspended on March 13. Later the orders were withdrawn. In the new amended order the consensus order was reached on suspension of licensees in Ghatigaon area only of those persons who have criminal background. After that the SP sent information about 352 cases to the collector. The information contains names of 500 people keeping licensed arms who are involved in some crime or other. The yoga guru conducted his training camp in Morena on Monday.