SHAHKOT
The Shahkot police have booked unidentified persons for alleged illegal sand mining.
The investigating officer (IO) Salindar Singh that the accused were driving a tractor trolley loaded with sand were intercepted at a Naka at Chak Bahmanniya village and fled away.
IO said a case under section 21 of the Punjab Mines Act and sections 379(theft) and 411(dishonestly receiving stolen property) of the IPC has been registered against the accused and impounded tractor trolley.