These quarries also are a testimony to the futility of stop memos, a bunch of which have been issued to them in recent years. The quarry owners approached the panchayat appellate tribunal. Quarrying continued until September 2016, when the panchayat, prompted by protests, appointed a subcommittee to study the impact of quarrying. Based on this report, a stop memo was issued on April 1, 2017. As some of the quarries continued to operate, the panchayat secretary wrote to the Kunnathukal police.

Source: The Hindu November 24, 2017 19:18 UTC