In the various joint operations, 313 vehicles were impounded for smuggling of minor minerals in Krishnagiri, according to the administration.

In joint operations by the departments of revenue, mines and the police, over 313 vehicles were impounded in the last six months. In May, 2025, over 49 vehicles were seized and in June, 38 vehicles were seized. This entailed a total of 87 vehicles seized in the last two months, according to the administration.

Earlier, a meeting on law and order and minor mineral coordination committee was chaired by Collector C. Dinesh Kumar at the Collectorate.

Addressing the meeting, the Collector instructed coordinated action between the line departments. Officials were asked to inspect quarries for permits, to ensure quarries are functioning with licences to operate and not on expired licences, to verify if quarries are operating with pollution board clearances; and to crack down on crushers operating without pollution board clearances or warehouse; and to inspect if the quarries are mining minerals over and above the permissible limits.

The Collector also instructed the monitoring departments to increase surveillance in order to ensure that explosives used in quarrying are not diverted for other purposes; to suspend licences of quarries where the mined stones are piled up to cause landslide and pose danger to public safety; to ensure transit permits are used only for one-time transport of minerals and not overextraction and smuggling; and to intercept vehicles transporting mined minerals without payment of green tax into the neighbouring states.

In Krishnagiri, two sites where extraction of minor stones without quarrying permits were caught and fines levied.