The Sagayam Committee inquiring illegal granite mining in Madurai district has submitted a 600-page report to the Madras High Court.
The court had last year appointed former Madurai Collector U Sagayam, an IAS officer, as a special officer to probe the illegal granite mining activities.
The report has nearly 7,000 annexures detailing various issues related to the illegal mining.
There was colossal loss to the State exchequer due to illegal mining, said V Suresh, counsel for the Special Officer, after submitting the report to the first bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice Pushpa Sathyanarayana.
Suresh told newspersons that the report recommended to the court the appointment of a special investigation team of the CBI, independent of the government, to further probe the issue. He declined to give information on the contents of the committee report.
The court later directed the Tamil Nadu government to submit its response in six weeks and posted the matter for hearing on January 4.