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

iv) the lessee has been found to be involved in
illegally widening the forest road without approval
under the FC Act;
v) the Hon’ble High Court has not directed to allow
the lessee to destroy the evidence of having
committed illegality and no specific direction to fill
up the mining pit was given;
vi) no verification was done as to whether the
material removed in the garb of over burden
contained saleable iron ore. The statement of the
lessee has not been recorded in this regard. The
compounding of the case has been further
accentuated with the recommendations for
approval under the FC Act for release of
additional 70.41 hectares of forest land in favour
of the lessee (dealt with in subsequent
paragraphs);
vii) the method of valuation of loss relating to the
forest and environment was not approved by the
senior officers of the Forest Department /
Government and a view on the same should
have been taken first before compounding the
case;
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