Noida: National Green Tribunal has held senior officers of UP’s mining department and pollution control board responsible for allowing illegal sand mining along the Ganga in Kanpur and Unnao districts and threatened to prosecute them, reports Jaideep Deogharia.The principal bench of the tribunal, comprising judicial member Justice Arun Kumar Tyagi and expert member Dr Afroz Ahmad said, “Serious violations revealed by the material on record in the present case warrant an order for the prosecution of the director, geology and mining, govt of UP, and the member secretary, UPPCB, for non-compliance with the order passed by this tribunal, but we consider it appropriate to take a lenient view and do not direct their prosecution. We forewarn them that, in case of any future non-compliance, we may be constrained to order the prosecution without any further leniency.”
