central empowered committee report (i) of the cec in writ petition

iv) alleged export duty evasion and income tax
evasion by mining company owned by a senior
political leader;
v) alleged illegal mining and extortion from the
mining companies;
vi) alleged illegal transfer of a mining company in
favour of a senior political leader; and
vii) suppressed sale of Rs. 86.43 crores in the
Income Tax Return by a mining company
operating in Bellary Forest.
These documents / information is filed herewith in a
sealed cover. The CEC, to the extent it is able, will verify this
information and thereafter will file its Report in the matter.
23. The CEC would like to place on record that during the
last nearly nine years of the existence of the CEC, it has
dealt with a number of cases involving illegal mining such as
in Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh,
Chhattisgarh and Orissa. In many of these cases, the extent
of illegal mining was found to be quite extensive. However all
these cases pale into insignificance when compared to the
illegal mining on colossal scale that has taken place in the
State of Karnataka particularly in District Bellary and that too
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