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Eighty-five days later, on Friday, Pranjals body was retrieved from a coal mine more than 40 feet deep, in Assams Tinsukia district...
According to Tinsukia Superintendent of Police Gaurav Abhijit Dilip, prima facie it appears that he died in an accident while working, and those working with him allegedly concealed his body to keep attention away from illegal mining activities..
Based on the statements, it seems he died in an accident while working, and there was a cover-up The area where this work was being carried out was under Coal India but there are illegal activities of rat-hole mining and even open-pit mining in remote parts, forested areas and in disputed areas of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh, he said...
Last week, the Gauhati High Court stated that it is the obligation of the Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change along with the state government to ensure that illegal mining activities are not carried out in the state..
It also directed that all illegal mining activities in the area in question are stopped forthwith, while hearing a set of PILs stating that illegal mining in the Saleki Proposed Reserve Forest Area in Tinsukia district was depleting forest cover in the area..
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