{
 "no": 80,
 "id": "case-80",
 "sk": 20120907,
 "year": 2012,
 "date": "Shah Commission report, Sep 2012",
 "cat": "Environment",
 "sev": "red",
 "title": "Goa. ₹35,000 crore of ore taken out of a state that stopped counting",
 "stamp": "Two chief ministers booked. Mining resumed.",
 "human": {
  "v": "Villages, groundwater and forest across a small state given over to unregulated extraction",
  "est": false
 },
 "cost": {
  "v": "The Shah Commission put illegal mining in Goa between 2005 and 2012 at about <b>₹35,000 crore</b>",
  "est": true
 },
 "what": "The Justice M.B. Shah Commission report, tabled in Parliament in September 2012, found industrial-scale illegal iron ore mining in Goa and held that the Chief Minister, who also held the mines portfolio, was aware of the non-compliance and illegalities and did not act on complaints.",
 "dodge": "Mining was suspended, then resumed under new leases. Two former chief ministers were eventually booked. Prosecutions have moved slowly and the sums the Commission identified have not been recovered. The state's mining regulation was rebuilt around the same industry it had failed to police.",
 "ministers": [
  {
   "n": "Digambar Kamat",
   "r": "Goa Chief Minister and Mines Minister (Congress); indicted by the Shah Commission"
  },
  {
   "n": "Goa state government",
   "r": "Mines, forest and pollution control departments"
  }
 ],
 "pos": "Those named have contested the Commission's findings, arguing it exceeded its remit and that lease irregularities were technical rather than criminal.",
 "alleg": "The Commission's conclusions are <em>findings of an inquiry, not convictions</em>, and remain contested in court.",
 "alt": "Ore export volumes reconciled against lease permissions in public, monthly, which is all it would have taken to see this as it happened.",
 "estimates": {
  "costInrCrore": 35000
 },
 "sources": [
  {
   "label": "Deccan Herald: judicial panel indicts ex-Goa CM",
   "url": "https://www.deccanherald.com/india/judicial-panel-indicts-ex-goa-2359012",
   "tier": 2
  },
  {
   "label": "Deccan Herald: two former CMs booked in Goa mining",
   "url": "https://www.deccanherald.com/india/2-former-cms-booked-goa-2251331",
   "tier": 2
  }
 ],
 "caseUrl": "https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-80/"
}