Charge of human sacrifice in illegal mining area serious: HC

January 05, 2016 01:00

Observing that the allegation of human sacrifice in the report on illegal mining submitted to the Madras high court was a serious one, the court today adjourned the mining issue to February 15.

The first bench, comprising Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice Pushpa Sathyanarayana, made the observation when the report by the then District Collector U Sagayam, appointed as Special Commissioner to go into the illegal mining, came up before it today. Counsel for Sagayam submitted that as per the officer's report, actual loss to the public exchequer was more than Rs 1,11,000 crore.

Human sacrifices were also found, he submitted. AS officer U Sagayam, appointed by the Madras high court as the legal commissioner to probe "illegal" granite quarrying in this district, has ordered digging of some sites where some persons were allegedly killed as human sacrifice and buried by quarry owners four years ago.

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