Four dairy owners from the Haibowal Dairy Complex have been booked for disposing of cow dung into drains, which eventually ends up in the effluent treatment plant (ETP), police said.
The action was taken on the complaint of a junior engineer from the municipal corporation’s operations and maintenance cell. He directed officials of the civic body, the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) and the police to take strict action against dairy owners caught dumping cow dung into the Buddha Nullah. It registered two FIRs under Section 279 (fouling water of public spring or reservoir) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and Sections 70 (3, 5 and 12) of the Northern India Canal and Drainage Act against Gursewak Singh and Joginder Singh in the first case, and Mukhtiar Singh and Pappu in the other, on Friday, according to the Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) police station.
This came after Rajya Sabha member Balbir Singh Seechewal conducted the 42nd review meeting on the Buddha Nullah rejuvenation project at the MC Zone D office in Sarabha Nagar on Thursday.
