Panaji, Oct 10 (TNN): RTI activist Sudip Tamankar has moved the high court of Bombay at Goa challenging the state government's recently-announced mining lease renewal policy.
In his writ petition, Tamankar has alleged that the state government is trying to allow mining companies, which were found by the Shah Commission of Inquiry to be indulging in illegal mining, to start operations in the state through the backdoor.
Tamankar, who is also the secretary of a bus owners' association, said that the government was returning a favour to the firms as some of them had given huge donations to the ruling party.
Tamankar's plea has sought a direction to the government to declare the mining lease renewal policy as null and void in view of the Supreme Court ruling in April that holds all mining leases post-2007 as illegal.