Two stone crushing plants sealed in Dir

TIMERGARA: The district administration sealed two stone crushing plants and arrested eight people for violating orders of ban on illegal stone crushing, officials said on Saturday. They said Assistant commissioner Ashfaq Ahmad Khan along with Levies and police raided the stone crushing plants at Malakabad, Balambat, and ordered to seal them.

The first information report (FIRs) were also registered against the owners of the stone crushing plants.

The two crushing plants at Malakabad operated at night in clear violation of the district administration’s orders to stop crushing without a no objection certificates (NoC) from the district administration.