Judgment of the Supreme Court in the matter of State of Uttar Pradesh & Others Vs Gaurav Kumar & Others dated 08/05/2025. The bench of Justice Pamidighantam Sri Narasimha and Justice Manoj Misra categorically stated that the Supreme Court "upholds the law and the regulations governing sand mining, demanding zero …
The State Government will take stringent action against illegal sand mining, said the Chief Minister, Ms J. Jayalalithaa. Illegal mining of sand and smuggling it to neighbouring states have largely been brought under control. Over the last one year, 4,173 cases of illegal sand mining have been filed, 5,033 persons …
The construction industry in Andhra Pradesh has come to a grinding halt following imposition of ban on sand mining by the high court to protect the riverbeds from indiscriminate exploitation of the natural resource. While the court stuck to its directive in the interest of the environment, there is a …
Blocked wildlife corridors across the Kosi river. Now a rash of private properties inside the tiger reserve itself. Jay Mazoomdaar exposes a scandal that could ruin one of the country’s most precious forests 1. The Rush For Green Gold Every bit of inhabitable land along the 17-km stretch of the …
The squads will undertake surprise visits to sand ghats. District Collector P.I. Sheikh Pareed has said that stringent measures have been adopted to put an end to illegal sand mining and sale in the district. Special squads comprising of representatives of revenue and police departments have been formed for the …
Chairman of Sri Lanka Geological Survey and Mines Bureau Dr. N.P. Wijayananda says that the bureau is inspecting the sand of a newly found sand mine for its suitability for construction industry before it is issued to the market. The sand deposit has been found in a land belonged to …
The Supreme Court has refused to vacate the stay granted by the AP High Court on sand mining in the state. While dealing with a batch of Special Leave Petitions moved by the state government and others, the apex court directed the state government to approach the ministry of environment …
A perennial nightmare for the residents of the State's coastal belt, that of mineral sand mining, is back again. This time, with a bureaucratic prop. And, the first lot to get the jitters are those living along the shores of Alappuzha, particularly the mineral-rich Thottappally stretch. It is a series …
Some states have banned mechanised mining, but the mafia is not ready to obey. Illegal mining is hollowing the riverbed putting at risk the stability and ecology of rivers. This special report in Down To Earth examines the murky business of sand mining. Where there is a river, there is …
Water experts warn that India’s major rivers, including Ganga, Yamuna, Narmada, Krishna, Godavari and Chambal, could soon dry up due to blatant sand and gravel mining being spearheaded by the mining mafia. So blatant are their activities that the water experts warn entire river systems are being destroyed by their …
The state government has proposed to amend the existing rules to curb illegal sand quarrying in the state by increasing the penalty three-fold; from Rs 10,000 to Rs 30,000 per truck carrying sand without a valid permit. According to the proposed amendment, the penalty imposed on each tractor carrying five …
People of Kavasambattu facing acute water scarcity for drinking and irrigation The indiscriminate and continuous quarrying of sand from the Palar river bed in Kavasambattu village in Katpadi taluk for the last seven years has resulted in the drying up of agricultural wells and domestic wells and the consequent decline …
Court Asks Govt To Comply With Supreme Court Guidelines While Allowing Gravel Mining Jaipur: The Jaipur bench of the Rajasthan High Court on Tuesday gave conditional sanction to sand mining from Banas river. The court asked the state government to comply with the Supreme Court guidelines while allowing mining of …
Sounding a note of caution, about the adverse impact of underwater sand mining, Chief Justice Madan B. Lokur asked the advocate-general to seriously reconsider its policy on allowing it. The Chief Justice was hearing a batch of writ petitions on sand mining along with Justice P.V. Sanjay Kumar. The High …
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today asked the Jaipur Metro Development Authority to seek permission from the Ministry of Environment and Forests for carrying out sand mining from river bed for its metro rail project. A special forest bench of justices K S Radhakrishnan and C K Prasad said the …
Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Deepak Kumar Vs State of Haryana & Ors dated 27/02/2012 regarding quarrying in the river beds of Yamuna, Tangri, Markanda, Ghaggar, Krishnavati River basin, Dohan River basin etc and extraction of minor minerals.
An Act to protect river banks and river beds from large scale dredging of river sand and to protect their biophysical environment system and regulate the removal of river sand and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
