The lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court directed the State government to make suitable amendments in the mining rules, after hearing a PIl challenging the suspension of Gautambuddha Nagar Sub-Divisional
Magistrate (SDM) Durga Shakti Nagpal. Bulbul Godiyal, Additional Advocate General, told the Court during hearing here on Friday that presently mining lease is granted even before the sanction of environmental clearance from the Centre and this clearance is obtained after grant of lease. She added that the state government was in the process of amending mining rules.
A Bench comprising Chief Justice Shiva Kirti Singh and Justice D K Upadhyaya seemed completely dissatisfied with the state government's present arrangement and directed that new rules should be so framed that environmental clearance is obtained before grant of lease so that the possibility of mining without gaining clearance gets eliminated.