Madurai Quarry

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  9-Year-Old Jumps Into Madurai Quarry To Save Drowning Cousin, 3. Both Die

  A holiday afternoon turned tragic in Madurai's Karuppayurani area when two cousins drowned in a water-filled quarry pit.

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  Tamil Nadu Granite Scam: Enforcement Directorate Attaches Over 500 Properties Worth Rs 200 Crore

  The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached over 500 properties, with a market value of about Rs 200 crore, in connection with its money laundering probe in the alleged illegal granite quarrying scam of Madurai in Tamil Nadu.

• MK Alagiri's son Durai Dayanidhi files plea seeking return of passport

  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.

• Illegal granite quarrying: Vigilance officials raid Madurai Collectorate

  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.

• Lookout notice for MK Alagiri's son in illegal quarrying case

  The Madurai police have asked immigration authorities to issue a look out circular for union minister MK Alagiri's son Durai Dayanidhi and eleven others in the illegal granite quarrying case in Madurai.

• Jayalalithaa holds review meeting on 'granite quarries'

  Amid crackdown on alleged large-scale irregularities in granite quarrying in several parts of Madurai district, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa today held a review meeting to discuss the situation.

• Court directs 16 sand quarries on River Cauvery to be shut

  The Madurai bench of the Madras High Court has ordered permanent closure of 16 sand quarries functioning in Tamil Nadu's Cauvery and Kollidam rivers. In the case of ten other quarries, the court has directed the government to obtain clearance from the Environmental Impact Assessment Authority in three months. It has also instructed the state govern...

• A scam worth 16,000 crores that rests on granite

  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.

• Blog: Tamil Nadu Police turning trigger happy

  Another alleged gangster in Tamil Nadu has been killed in a police encounter. According to the police, the Inspector was attacked at an illegal sand quarry in Tirunelvelli district and he opened fire in self defence. This has now become a routine predictable theory. This reminds me of a gruesome police encounter in Madurai which I covered as a fled...

• Former DMK minister files bail application

  Former DMK Minister I Periyasamy, arrested on June 4 on charges of illegal quarrying, filed a bail application on Thursday in the Madras High Court bench in Madurai in connection with the case against him in this regard.

• High Court directs regulation of sand quarrying in Cauvery

  The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Tuesday directed the collectors of five districts in the Cauvery delta to regulate sand quarrying in the Cauvery and Kollidam rivers. The directive to the District Collectors of Karur, Tiruchirappalli, Thanjavur, Nagapattinam and Thiruvarur was issued by Justice R Banumathi and Justice B Rajendran, in ...