Intensifying the action against the firms which were allegedly involved in illegal granite quarrying in Madurai, the district administration on Saturday asked the Income Tax and Commercial Tax departments to conduct a probe into the sealed properties of PRP Exports.
On Saturday, Collector Anshul Mishra, Superintendent of Police V Balakrishnan and top officials of other departments assessed the progress of the action taken against the illegal granite quarrying in the last week.
“We have prepared the list of persons who need to be arrested and chalked out the future course of action to be taken in the illegal granite quarrying case,” Balakrishnan told Express.
“We have asked the Income Tax department to make a through assessment of the properties that we had seized from the PRP Exports, which include transaction documents and marbles stored on the premises,” said a senior revenue officer.
The special team, which had been surveying the sealed properties of the PRP Exports, has identified 30 acres of irrigation tank and water channel up to a length of 250 metres have been encroached upon. “To cover up the encroachment, they have filled the irrigation tanks and channel with gravels, sand, metal crushing powder and mineral waste,” the officer said and added that the waste generated through cutting and polishing of granites has been let into this tank and the adjoining channels. During inspection it came to light that PRP Exports had encroached 1.3 acres of the Prohibitory Order of Passbook land and had constructed a large fountain the officer said. Further, officials of the Local Planning Authority would also soon conduct a survey of the land, he said.
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