"Departmental activities should be reviewed regularly and a joint meeting of the Revenue, Home and Mineral Departments should be organised. A strategy should be worked out for effective control of illegal mining. Work to stop the illegal mining of minerals should be undertaken at all costs.
It was discovered that the officials who were tasked with stopping illegal mining instead grabbed their cut and pretended to be spectators, inflicting a significant loss to the provincial exchequer and the residents of the district.
Indore/Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], September 2 (ANI): Officers of Lokayukta on Tuesday raided properties in Indore and Bhopal belonging to an ex-official of Indore's Mineral Department who is now posted in Sheopur, following the allegations of disproportionate assets against him.