PANJIM: In a major setback to the mining industry, Shah Commission during their first round of investigations is learnt to have found that 90 percent of the mines in the state have some kind of illegalities.

Sources stated that Shah Commission’s senior members Justice R A Mehta and U V Singh reprimanded Chief Wildlife Warden Dr Shashi Kumar and Director of Mines and Geology Arvind Lolienkar on the illegalities, which were allowed to be continue by authorities.