<p>Rodrigues told the Goa assembly Wednesday that his department had filed a complaint against Prafulla Hede, the manager of the mine who is the NCP's state coordinator and is known as a key aide of Pawar on Goa affairs. <br /><br />In his written reply, the forest minister said Ramratan Vaidya, a mining manager at Hede's mine located in Collem, near the Bhagwan Mahavir Wildlife sanctuary, had already been booked during the course of the enquiry conducted by the forest department.<br /><br />Hede's mine is one of the 17 mining outfits which have been pulled up by the forest department for illegally mining in Goa's forests. <br /><br />The state mining department has already cracked the whip against NCP national secretary Jitendra Deshprabhu for illegal mining in Pernem, a sub-district in north Goa located 35 km from here. <br /><br />"Jitendra Deshprabhu is indulging in illegal mining activity in survey number 299/0 of Korgao village of Pernem taluka (sub-district)," Chief Minister Digambar Kamat, who has himself been accused of sheltering illegal mining, had said in the assembly in February.<br /><br />Kamat, who is also minister for mines, told the winter session of the Goa assembly in February that the senior NCP functionary had already been issued a show cause notice for illegally extracting nearly 50,000 tonnes of iron ore.<br /><br />"After hearing on the submissions made by him, a demand was raised towards value of the minerals," Kamat said. <br /><br />Deshprabhu has already been fined Rs.1.72 crore by the state mining department.<br />The NCP is a part of a Congress-led coalition government in the state.</p>
<p>Rodrigues told the Goa assembly Wednesday that his department had filed a complaint against Prafulla Hede, the manager of the mine who is the NCP's state coordinator and is known as a key aide of Pawar on Goa affairs. <br /><br />In his written reply, the forest minister said Ramratan Vaidya, a mining manager at Hede's mine located in Collem, near the Bhagwan Mahavir Wildlife sanctuary, had already been booked during the course of the enquiry conducted by the forest department.<br /><br />Hede's mine is one of the 17 mining outfits which have been pulled up by the forest department for illegally mining in Goa's forests. <br /><br />The state mining department has already cracked the whip against NCP national secretary Jitendra Deshprabhu for illegal mining in Pernem, a sub-district in north Goa located 35 km from here. <br /><br />"Jitendra Deshprabhu is indulging in illegal mining activity in survey number 299/0 of Korgao village of Pernem taluka (sub-district)," Chief Minister Digambar Kamat, who has himself been accused of sheltering illegal mining, had said in the assembly in February.<br /><br />Kamat, who is also minister for mines, told the winter session of the Goa assembly in February that the senior NCP functionary had already been issued a show cause notice for illegally extracting nearly 50,000 tonnes of iron ore.<br /><br />"After hearing on the submissions made by him, a demand was raised towards value of the minerals," Kamat said. <br /><br />Deshprabhu has already been fined Rs.1.72 crore by the state mining department.<br />The NCP is a part of a Congress-led coalition government in the state.</p>