An order was directed to the police in Meghalaya to find people behind setting illegal coke plant in the state.
According to investigation, from Shallang area of West Khasi Hills most of the illegal coke plants operators are Assam based, police informed High Court of Meghalaya.
Also it was found that the land on which the illegal coke oven plant were operating belong to 32 persons, all of whom were females and mostly aged women. Raid has been conducted to arrest them for the illegal setting.
DGP LR Bishnoi submitted to the court, “that insofar as the actual owners/operators of the illegal coke plants are concerned, the investigation from owners of the land has revealed that they are mostly based in Assam and have been running the illegal business in Meghalaya and several benami transactions have also come to light in the investigation for which request had already been made to the competent court to add section 53(1) of Benami Prohibition Act, 2016 in the pending case.”
