During the course of search at Channi’s nephew & his associates, some property related documents and Indian currency worth more than Rs. 6 crores has been found at the premises being searched.
The amount of cash found at the residential premises of Bhupinder Singh (Channi’s nephew) at Ludhiana is around Rs 4 crores and at the residential premises of Sandeep Kumar at Ludhiana is around Rs 2 crores.
Background: In the FIR relating to Charanjit Channi’s nephew, a team comprising of officials of Mining Department, Civil Administration and Police Department made a surprise check on 07.03.2018 on the basis of a complaint received at the Police Station – Rahon, SBS Nagar regarding illegal sand mining.
Consequently, it was found that several mines were being excavated by various machines and mining was being carried out beyond the designated area. Subsequently, the mining operation at Malikpur mining site was stopped and also the approval of weighment Slips was stopped by the team.
As per the FIR, apart from Malikpur, illegal mining activities were also carried out at Burjtahl Das, Barsal, Lalewal, Mandala and Khosa.
