Chief Minister’s Flying Squad Squad Rohtak

haryana Govt

Chandigarh, October 2: While taking a strict cognizance of the complaints regarding increasing pollution levels by a factory running in Sahoti village in Kharkhoda, a joint team of Chief Minister’s Flying Squad Rohtak along with Pollution Control Board has booked Mr. Vinod, a factory owner for violating anti-pollution norms. Besides this, the owner has also been arrested under Arms Act for illegally keeping a country-made pistol and three cartridges in his factory premises.

Sharing more details about the same, an official spokesman said that after receiving the complaints from the people of the area the joint team of Chief Minister’s Flying Squad along with Pollution Control Board in the presence of Duty Magistrate Anil Kumar Tehsildar Kharkhoda had raided the premises of the said factory.

During the raid the team found that the work of melting lead from the old batteries to make slabs by using coal was going on in a furnace set-up inside the factory, which resulted in increase in pollution levels in the surrounding areas. 53 slabs were recovered from the factory. Weight of one slab is around 34 kg, the market cost of which is said to be around Rs.200 per Kg.

The spokesman said that during interrogation, the factory owner Vinod Kumar, resident of Bamnoli village of Jhajjar district was asked to produce the factory documents, but he failed to do so after which the team also recovered an illegal country-made pistol and three cartridges in his factory premises.  On being asked, the factory owner even failed to produce any valid license and documents for keeping the said arm.

He said that Chief Minister Flying Squad will continue to launch such drives across the State to take strict action against those running their factories without registration and hence spreading pollution levels.

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