Mining to have an effect on bunkers: Army to Punjab and Haryana High Court

Express News Service

CHANDIGARH:  The Army has informed the Punjab and Haryana High Court that mining actions will have an effect on the structural integrity and energy of bunkers of their proximity in Punjab’s border districts. The Army has stated in case of any assault, mining will prohibit troop motion, resulting in delays in reinforcement and counterattack duties. The Army response got here following the court docket’s course to it for a report on the injury to spurs and bunkers resulting from mining actions.

Captain Ashima Das, officer-in-charge (authorized cell) of Western Command at Chandimandir gave the Army’s response on Thursday in an affidavit filed earlier than the bench of Chief Justice Ravi Shanker Jha and Justice Arun Palli. It was submitted within the affidavit that mining would trigger soil erosion, thereby inflicting bunkers to collapse, instantly affecting the defence preparedness.

The mining of a riverbed is more likely to change the course of the river and alter the depth of the river at varied locations, disrupting the defence layouts, stated the affidavit. “The mining cannot solely prohibit troop motion however may also have an effect on the pure drainage of water, resulting in unpredictable flooding,’’ stated the affidavit.

The affidavit adopted the High Court order on Aug 30 through which the bench directed the respondent Union of India to acquire a report from the Army authorities on the injury triggered and the risk the nationwide safety.

On August 29, the Army had asserted that unlawful mining had been a facilitation issue for the nexus between drug smugglers, terrorists and anti-national parts nurtured by Pakistan’s ISI. In one other affidavit filed by the Army in a associated matter, the Army had earlier acknowledged that ditches and gorges fashioned following unlawful mining facilitated cross-border infiltration.

Unplanned and uncontrolled mining may additionally trigger adjustments within the pure water drainage and even change the river’s course, ensuing within the military posts being inclined to flooding.

50 booked as mining mafia assaults cops
Chandigarh: The mining mafia is again in Haryana’s Nuh, close to the nationwide capital. The state police have booked at the least 50 individuals a day after a authorities workforce conducting a raid on an unlawful mine was pelted with stones in a Nuh village.

The state police, which was part of the raiding officers, has recognized 5 attackers and arrange three examine posts on the state border with Rajasthan. These posts are additionally manned by personnel drawn from the mining division and Regional Transport Authority (RTA).

Around two months in the past, a dumper truck carrying stones from an unlawful mine had allegedly knocked down a deputy superintendent of police in one other Nuh village. ENS 

CHANDIGARH:  The Army has informed the Punjab and Haryana High Court that mining actions will have an effect on the structural integrity and energy of bunkers of their proximity in Punjab’s border districts. The Army has stated in case of any assault, mining will prohibit troop motion, resulting in delays in reinforcement and counterattack duties. The Army response got here following the court docket’s course to it for a report on the injury to spurs and bunkers resulting from mining actions.

Captain Ashima Das, officer-in-charge (authorized cell) of Western Command at Chandimandir gave the Army’s response on Thursday in an affidavit filed earlier than the bench of Chief Justice Ravi Shanker Jha and Justice Arun Palli. It was submitted within the affidavit that mining would trigger soil erosion, thereby inflicting bunkers to collapse, instantly affecting the defence preparedness.

The mining of a riverbed is more likely to change the course of the river and alter the depth of the river at varied locations, disrupting the defence layouts, stated the affidavit. “The mining cannot solely prohibit troop motion however may also have an effect on the pure drainage of water, resulting in unpredictable flooding,’’ stated the affidavit.

The affidavit adopted the High Court order on Aug 30 through which the bench directed the respondent Union of India to acquire a report from the Army authorities on the injury triggered and the risk the nationwide safety.

On August 29, the Army had asserted that unlawful mining had been a facilitation issue for the nexus between drug smugglers, terrorists and anti-national parts nurtured by Pakistan’s ISI. In one other affidavit filed by the Army in a associated matter, the Army had earlier acknowledged that ditches and gorges fashioned following unlawful mining facilitated cross-border infiltration.

Unplanned and uncontrolled mining may additionally trigger adjustments within the pure water drainage and even change the river’s course, ensuing within the military posts being inclined to flooding.

50 booked as mining mafia assaults cops
Chandigarh: The mining mafia is again in Haryana’s Nuh, close to the nationwide capital. The state police have booked at the least 50 individuals a day after a authorities workforce conducting a raid on an unlawful mine was pelted with stones in a Nuh village.

The state police, which was part of the raiding officers, has recognized 5 attackers and arrange three examine posts on the state border with Rajasthan. These posts are additionally manned by personnel drawn from the mining division and Regional Transport Authority (RTA).

Around two months in the past, a dumper truck carrying stones from an unlawful mine had allegedly knocked down a deputy superintendent of police in one other Nuh village. ENS