19 Mar 2023  |   06:28am IST

Illegal sand extraction site raided at Colvale, truck seized

Illegal sand extraction site  raided at Colvale, truck seized

Team Herald 


MAPUSA: Officials of the Department of Mines and Geology, Bardez Mamlatdar and the Colvale police in a joint raid seized a tipper truck that was involved in transporting illegally extracted sand from Camurlim. 

The driver of the vehicle too was detained.

The raid was conducted on early Saturday morning based on an information that sand extraction activity was going on at the Chapora River, in the jurisdiction of Camurlim Village Panchayat. 

A team of Colvale police leaded by PSI Mandar Parab detained one truck which was transporting illegally extracted sand from the River Chapora along with the driver.

The police have registered an offence to the theft of sand under Section 379 r/w 34 of the IPC and for Contravention of Rule 3,38 with Rule 62(1) of the Goa Minor Minerals Concession Rule 1985, based on the complaint filed by an official from the Mines Department.


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