Kota: Police on Tuesday lodged a case of theft, felony trespass, and encroachment of public land towards Congress Prahlad Gunjal in a case of alleged unlawful mining, officers mentioned.
A joint crew of police and forest division recovered 955 tonnes of stone, an excavator and a dumper had been seized from a stone crusher unit, operated by Congress Lok Sabha candidate from Kota-Bundi Gunjal close to Bawadikheda and Kolana villages, they mentioned.
The motion towards Gunjal’s stone crusher unit was carried out on Monday and Tuesday, officers mentioned.
This comes a day after three unlawful constructions, together with a farmhouse, of Congress chief Amin Pathan, throughout an anti-encroachment drive within the Anantpura space in Kota.
In a press convention on Tuesday, Prahlad Gunjal mentioned all papers associated to the stone crusher had been authorized and that this was an act of political vendetta by the BJP in Rajasthan.
Police mentioned they obtained data concerning unlawful mining actions on authorities land within the Ranpur police station space.
A joint crew of police and forest division reached the reported website on the intervening evening of Monday and Tuesday at Badwadikheda and Kolana villages, mentioned DSP Manish Sharma who was a part of the crew.
Police discovered potential unlawful mining actions, together with machines and tools, and the following day income, mining, police and forest division officers reached the spot for website mapping, he mentioned.
Sharma mentioned an excavator, a dumper and 955 tonnes of stone had been seized from the positioning on a report by the tehsildar.
A case towards Prahlad Gunjal and his nephew Lokesh Gunjal was lodged below sections 379 (theft), 447 (trespass) of the IPC and 4/21 of MMRD Act and Part 92 A of Rajasthan City Enchancment Act, he mentioned.
In the meantime, in a press convention, Prahlad Gunjal mentioned the motion at his stone crusher unit by the district administration was “political vendetta”.
He claimed the stone crusher unit was operational legally with all required permissions, approvals and papers as per guidelines and laws. Gunjal additionally confirmed papers on the press convention, claiming that they had been official papers of the stone crusher unit.
The federal government was scared in regards to the outcomes of the Lok Sabha elections on June 4, Gunjal mentioned, including that it’s taking motion towards anybody who’s anti-BJP.
Notably, weeks earlier than polling in Kota constituency within the second part of the Lok Sabha polls, Gunjal joined the Congress after being with the BJP for round 40 years. He was fielded by his new occasion towards his former occasion colleague and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla — who was contesting for the third straight time period in Parliament.
Gunjal additionally mentioned the land on which the stone crusher was being operated was transformed solely for that function in July 2010.
Such permission for land conversion was solely doable after NOC from all involved departments, Gunjal mentioned, asserting the legality of his crusher registered within the identify of his spouse.
With the oncoming wet season, the stones had been saved for the reason that stonemines are full of water because of the rain, he added.
Gunjal additionally identified a number of different mining and crusher items which are operational illegally in and round Kota and claimed he would protest towards these unlawful items after June 4.
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