SHAHKOT
The Shahkot police have booked unidentified persons on the charge of illegal sand mining.
Mining inspector of Jalandhar water resources department Manpreet Singh complained to the police that unidentified persons were extracting sand illegally from River Sutlej near Ram Pur village by using a JCB machine.
The investigating officer Balkar Singh said that a case under section 21 of the Mines Act C has been registered against the accused and impounded the JCB machine.