Ward Chairman arrested for illegal mining activities in Chure and forest areas
JANAKPURDHAM, Dec 30: Phanindra Prasad Pokhrel, the Chairman of Ward no. 1 in Karjanha Municipality, was arrested on Friday for allegedly endorsing unlawful stone, gravel, and sand mining activities in the Chure forest area.
JANAKPURDHAM, Dec 30: Phanindra Prasad Pokhrel, the Chairman of Ward no. 1 in Karjanha Municipality, was arrested on Friday for allegedly endorsing unlawful stone, gravel, and sand mining activities in the Chure forest area.
Illegal mining and smuggling of sand, pebbles and stones from the rivers in Banke is still continuing despite regular interventions from concerned authorities. Police departments had intensified their actions after elected representatives from Raptisonari Rural Municipality had confiscated smuggled riverbed materials recently. However, the illegal mining has still not stopped. Police had recently arrested four tractors while transporting riverbed materials from the municipality.
