Supreme Court warns M.P. govt. of paramilitary deployment to rein in Chambal sand miners

The Supreme Court of India on Friday (April 17, 2026) acknowledged it wouldn’t hesitate to take the unheard of step of deploying paramilitary forces to curb illegal sand mining in the ecologically fragile and safe Nationwide Chambal Gharial Sanctuary if the States of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh fail to take “concrete measures” to tackle the risk within a month, by the next date of listening to on Might maybe also 11.

The warning to the three States turn into as soon as piece of a 28-online page speak handed by a Bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta, which took suo motu cognisance of rampant illegal sand mining within the sanctuary, resulting in extreme degradation of mighty wildlife habitats, collectively with that of the endangered gharials.