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Illegal stone crusher with no forest clearance in Bandipora forests [1]

Apex court guidelines on forest clearance violated

Bandipora: In a brazen violation to the Supreme Court (SC) guidelines, a private company in league with the Border Roads Organizations (BRO) project Beacon's officials and forest department has set up a stone crusher in the dense forests of Bandipora. The Company is run by the sons of the top politicians of ruling party. The stone crusher has come up adjacent to the forest land leased out to the BRO through a State Cabinet decision in 2009.

Publication Date: 
08/10/2012
Fayaz Bukhari [2]
Daily Excelsior (Jammu) [3]
Tags:
Stone Industry [4], Stone [5], Supreme Court [6], Mining [7], Land [8], Corporate Legal Accountability [9], Forests [10], Jammu & Kashmir [11]
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