Signature Not Verified UPON hearing the counsel the Court made the following Digita lly s ign ed b y O R D E R Jayant Kumar Arora Date: 2025.10.18 Reason:

1. The petitioners have already moved an application before the High Court for release of the vehicles. In the order impugned before us, the High Court has also recorded filing of the said interlocutory application. The relevant portion of the order dated

14.07.2025 is reproduced hereunder :-

“6. The scope of the PIL pending before this Court is not restrained to mere seismological impacts on account of the mining activity, but, also the gross violations in the conduct of mining operations;

7. Intervention applications are preferred by owners of the machinery that were seized pursuant to the directions of this Court. It is their contention that they had nothing to do with the mining operations and that they had merely hired the machinery.

8. The legality of the use of the machinery has been gone into by this Bench on a prima facie basis and in that view, the issue requires to be considered in terms of Section 21 , in particular, sub-section 4(a) of th