Chandigarh, March 14: The Punjab and Haryana High Court today put the State of Punjab on notice on a petition seeking directions for taking action against illegal extraction of excess quantity of sand from the mining sites in Ludhiana district.
The notice by the Bench of Justice Ajay Kumar Mittal and Justice Anupinder Singh Grewal came on a petition filed in public interest against the State of Punjab and other respondents by Karnail Singh and other petitioners through counsel Ramandeep Singh Pandher.
Appearing before the Bench, Pandher asserted the petitioners were deeply concerned with the present issue related to carrying of sand in excessively overloaded tippers from sand mines at Dupana, Lubangarh and Sikanderpur in Samrala tehsil.
