Purulia police and the Eastern Coalfields Limited (ECL) jointly held raids in four villages under Neturia police station area in the district to find several active illegal coal mines.
The raids, carried out on Friday, came in the backdrop of the CBI probing a multi-crore coal scam since November 2020 following complaints lodged by the ECL. No arrests have been made during the raids.
ECL has closed the illegal coal pits with sand.
