A Division Bench of Justices S.M. Subramaniam and A.D. Maria Clete sought the response from the State to the petition filed by S.M.A. Pon Gandhimathinathan of Thoothukudi district. The petitioner additionally sought a path to the State to take acceptable motion in opposition to the erring officers accountable for the dying of six employees in a stone quarry in Mallakottai in Sivaganga district. The employees had been killed in a rockslide at a stone quarry.
The tragedy occurred solely due to the negligence and carelessness of the officers. As per a G.O. issued by the Industries Department instructions had been issued to District Collectors to forestall unlawful quarrying within the State and to kind particular cells at District ranges to overview the matter on a month-to-month foundation, he stated.
He stated the primary goal of the G.O was to represent District and taluk stage job forces to curtail the menace of unlawful mining, quarrying and transportation of minerals. In the occasion of unlawful mining, the Village Administrative Officer, the Tahsildar, Officer in-charge of the Department of Geology and Mining on the District stage and the Police officer accountable for the world ought to be held accountable for not taking motion in opposition to the offenders. The District Collector ought to take departmental motion in opposition to them and ship a report back to the federal government, he stated.
However, no motion has been taken in opposition to the erring officers accountable for the dying of the six employees within the stone quarry, the petitioner stated and sought a path to the State to forestall unlawful mining/quarrying in Sivaganga district and to take acceptable motion in opposition to the erring officers accountable for the dying of six individuals within the stone quarry.
Published – August 08, 2025 10:12 pm IST
