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The high-level committee set up to study the Lokayukta report on illegal mining pertaining to the role of officials indicted in it, has recommended action against over 600 officials, including seven of all-India cadre.
In its report submitted to the government today, the Committee, headed by the Additional Chief Secretary, Mr K. Jairaj, devoted 26 pages pertaining to various recommendations to the Chief Secretary, Mr S.V. Ranganath, official sources said here.
The Committee, in its 317-page report, has recommended action against 617 officials, they said. The Lokayukta in its report on illegal mining, has named about 787 officials, of whom 150 have passed away.
The Committee had directed Departments of Revenue, Mines and Geology, Police, Commercial Tax, Forest and Transport to serve notices on their officials indicted in the report and seek their replies.
Most of those who had replied to the notice had rejected charge of having received bribes from an aide of arrested mining baron, Mr G. Janardhana Reddy, now in judicial custody in Hyderabad.
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