Nagpur: City police, after creating five arrests in the illegal interstate transit of the scam pass on Sunday, now set to bring the role of the income relevant officials also under the upcoming supervision.
The Crime Branch team had last week catching the mastermind master of the transit pass from Bhopal.
Amitesh Kumar City Police Chief, who initiated the crackdown over illegal sand mafia, said the involvement of income officials could not be ruled out because various deviations related to mining dripping out.
He has involved eight crime branch officers under DCP Chinmay Pandit to conduct an investigation.
“The latest arrest was made after MP-based MP (Rahul Khanna) allegations were interrogated about illegal beneficiaries of rackets in Maharashtra,” Top Police said, added that the official Nexus was accused of being extracted.
Kumar also said the three main aspects of the investigation were revolving around the main problem related to sand mining which began with the publication of illegal electronic transit passes.
“The issuance of illegal transit transit is one aspect.
Our probe also includes the use of transit passes that are illegally incurred in Maharashtra for the excavation of sand from certain Ghats and their transportation,” said CP.
“The third corner probes rotate around the transport shelf with a fake and irregular transit pass and which helps them operate,” he said.
Five alleged illegal sand miners captured by the crime branch have been identified as Surendra Sawarkar (Khapa), Ashish Gaur (Saeranna), Piyush Burde (Khapa), Mahesh Chakole (Saeranna) and Ishan Bangde (Saeranna).
The police said five people held illegal e-transit operand from Khanna to operate in Maharashtra.
DCP Chinmay Pandit said the police would soon write to the collectors of Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh in question with detail defendants excavated during the ongoing investigation.
“The role of officials, especially those from MP, are doubtful as one after other E-TPS from Ghat they are issued but the sand is not excavated from one of those who should come to their current notice and the action must have been taken,” said Pandit, added , more arrests tend to occur.
CP Kumar previously instructed every police station to ensure that illegal sand mining cases were ordered by considering that e-transit tickets may be fake or irregular after removing MP-based racquets.
He also urged investigative officers to investigate whether the defendant was also connected to Khanna.