Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Nanglarai khanan dhekedar Bandhuyo ke kheelaf gramino ne khola morcha" appearing in Sach Kahun dated 29.12.2023 dated 13/02/2024.

Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Jitendra Kumar Pradhan Vs State of Odisha & Others dated 05/02/2024.

The matter related to an infrastructure company (Aditya Construction) engaged in various construction works and extracting earth/morrum from various places. It was alleged that the company was illegally lifting/extracting about 56100 cum of morrum in Jharsuguda district. The news about the illegal mining was published in the local Odia newspaper 'Prameya'.

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News item titled "Sand Mining: 20 arrested 40 big boats seized in Bihar Police operation on Sone river" appearing in www.downtoearth.org dated 22.12.2023 dated 05/02/2024.

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Gramino ne SDM se Kailash Nadi mei avaidh khanan rokane kee maang kee" appearing in Hindustan dated 31.10.2023 dated 05/02/2024.

The application was registered suo-moto on the basis of a newspaper report which stated that illegal mining was taking place using JCB and pokeland machines in river Kailash, Nakulia village, Udham Singh Nagar, Uttarakhand.

Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zone Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Yadram Vs State of Rajasthan & Others dated 23/01/2024.

The grievance in the application is mining activities within the Taj Trapezium Zone (TTZ area) in violation of existing rules and orders of Supreme Court of India in W.P. (Civil) No. 653/1994 in which SC vide order, November 17, 2004 has directed that no blasting operations are allowed within 10 km of the area.