'How Can Area Declared As Forest Reserve Be Allotted For Mining?': AP High Court Orders Probe Into Allotment Of 92.40 Acres Of Village Land

The Andhra Pradesh High Court has voiced concern over the allotment of mining rights to M/s.Sri Kumara Swamy Silica Mines (Respondent 11) of an area in Mimidi Village stretching for 92.40 acres, which was otherwise earmarked as “Forest Reserve Poramboke”.A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Dhiraj Singh Thakur and Justice Ravi Cheemalapati observed,“We fail to understand as to how...