The Meghalaya High Court on Tuesday directed the State government to immediately transfer the present Superintendent of Police (SP) of East Jaintia Hills for his failure to stop illegal coal mining and transportation in the district.
It might be mentioned that there have been allegations of illegal coal mining in the area for quite some time now. An FIR has been filed in this regard, and an investigation is underway.
He said the state have been engaged in this form of mining for last 200 years and livelihood is based around that and unless and until alternate forms of livelihood don’t come up people will keep going back to those activities.
