Coimbatore: The Thadagam police arrested the driving force of two trucks for trying to transport bricks from two kilns at Thadagam Valley on Tuesday night by breaking the command of the Madras High Courcd and Order of the Coimbatore District Administration.
The driver was identified as P Sundarapandia, 30, from No.
24 Verapandi and K Rangaraj, 45, from Chinna Thagam.
Based on the direction of HC, the Coimbatore District Administration has issued closing commands to more than 180 kilns bricks.
The sale of bricks produced in kilns in and around Thagam is a violation because they function illegally.
The police team has stopped the truck in Kanuvai during vehicle checks.
The police ordered the owner of Sathyamurthy and Kanagaraj bricks from Thadagam and also confiscated the two trucks.
The people who were arrested were ordered under section 379 (theft) of the Indian criminal code and 21 (i) Act, 1957.
Activists based in Ganesh asked the police to arrest the owner of the brick kiln.