Illegal Granite Mining

A baby's bones are among the remains of four human bodies that have been unearthed as the macabre offshoot of an investigation into illegal mining in and around Madurai in Tamil Nadu.

Former Union minister M K Alagiri's son Durai Dayanidhi, who has been granted anticipatory bail in the alleged granite quarrying scam, today filed a plea in the Madras High Court Bench in Madurai seeking a direction to a lower court to return his passport to enable him go abroad in connection with his business Interests.

Union Minister MK Alagiri's son Durai Dayanidhi was grilled by police in Tamil Nadu's Madurai in connection with illegal mining of granite by a company in which he was a director.

For someone who comes from a particularly high-profile family in Tamil Nadu, Durai Dayanidhi pulled off the near-impossible: he remained untraced for four months despite a putative police search.

The son of union minister MK Alagiri has been granted anticipatory bail by the Madras High Court.

Police in Chennai today raided the office of Union Minister MK Alagiri's son Durai Dayanidhi in connection with the granite scam, and have reportedly recovered some documents. Mr Dayanidhi has been absconding for more than a month after a firm closely linked to him was accused of illegal mining near the temple town of Madurai in Tamil Nadu.

As part of its crackdown on illegal granite quarrying, Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-corruption officials today raided the Geology and Mines Department office at the collectorate in Madurai.

Police have alerted immigration authorities to help them in preventing Durai Dayanidhi, union minister M K Alagiri's son, and 11 others from leaving the country in the wake of the state government's crackdown on illegal granite quarrying.

The owner of a granite company allegedly involved in illegal mining surrendered before the Additional Deputy Superintendent of Police in Madurai.

Officials from the Madurai district administration in Tamil Nadu are conducting raids at 175 granite quarries across the district. The former Collector of Madurai Mr Sagayam, who was recently transferred, had alleged major violations by many granite quarries and had estimated a loss of more than sixteen thousand crore rupees to the state exchequer.

Two former DMK ministers Veerapandi S Arumugam and I Periyasamy were arrested on Monday on different charges. Mr Arumugam, the DMK's strongman in Salem district, was arrested near his residence on land grabbing charges and Mr Periyasamy at Koombur in Dindigul district for alleged illegal granite mining, police said.

A baby's bones are among the remains of four human bodies that have been unearthed as the macabre offshoot of an investigation into illegal mining in and around Madurai in Tamil Nadu.

Former Union minister M K Alagiri's son Durai Dayanidhi, who has been granted anticipatory bail in the alleged granite quarrying scam, today filed a plea in the Madras High Court Bench in Madurai seeking a direction to a lower court to return his passport to enable him go abroad in connection with his business Interests.

Union Minister MK Alagiri's son Durai Dayanidhi was grilled by police in Tamil Nadu's Madurai in connection with illegal mining of granite by a company in which he was a director.

For someone who comes from a particularly high-profile family in Tamil Nadu, Durai Dayanidhi pulled off the near-impossible: he remained untraced for four months despite a putative police search.

The son of union minister MK Alagiri has been granted anticipatory bail by the Madras High Court.

Police in Chennai today raided the office of Union Minister MK Alagiri's son Durai Dayanidhi in connection with the granite scam, and have reportedly recovered some documents. Mr Dayanidhi has been absconding for more than a month after a firm closely linked to him was accused of illegal mining near the temple town of Madurai in Tamil Nadu.

As part of its crackdown on illegal granite quarrying, Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-corruption officials today raided the Geology and Mines Department office at the collectorate in Madurai.

Police have alerted immigration authorities to help them in preventing Durai Dayanidhi, union minister M K Alagiri's son, and 11 others from leaving the country in the wake of the state government's crackdown on illegal granite quarrying.

The owner of a granite company allegedly involved in illegal mining surrendered before the Additional Deputy Superintendent of Police in Madurai.

Officials from the Madurai district administration in Tamil Nadu are conducting raids at 175 granite quarries across the district. The former Collector of Madurai Mr Sagayam, who was recently transferred, had alleged major violations by many granite quarries and had estimated a loss of more than sixteen thousand crore rupees to the state exchequer.

Two former DMK ministers Veerapandi S Arumugam and I Periyasamy were arrested on Monday on different charges. Mr Arumugam, the DMK's strongman in Salem district, was arrested near his residence on land grabbing charges and Mr Periyasamy at Koombur in Dindigul district for alleged illegal granite mining, police said.