HC orders CRPF to monitor coal illegalities in Meghalaya

the High Court of Meghalaya now asking Justice (retd) BP Katakey to prepare the modalities to allow the CRPF to aggressively monitor and crack down on the illegal mining and transportation of coal in the state.

The full bench of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee, Justice HS Thangkhiew and Justice Wanlura Diengdoh on Tuesday ordered that the state government should be given a lesser role to play in monitoring the illegalities.

The court also asked the state to indicate the ideal number of companies of personnel necessary to effectively monitor and check the prohibition on unscientific mining of coal, including rat-hole mining, and the transportation of the recently illegally mined coal.