Issue transit pass to mineral firm: HC

The company has a 20-year lease on 82.55 hectares of land in Yeshwantnagar in Sandur taluk for mining.

In 2009, the Forest Department alleged that the company had encroached upon forest land and built a road and ordered the seizure of machinery. The Company approached the High Court, challenging this notification.

The High Court in its ruling directed the Forest Department to return the machinery and verify the facts of encroachment again.

Later, the Department of Mines and Geology issued a permit, but the Forest Department did not issue a pass despite the Deputy Commissioner’s instructions to do so. The company which had 80,000 metric tonne of ore to be transported approached the High Court again, due to non-compliance of order by the Forest Department.