BANGALORE: The high-level committee led by Additional Chief Secretary K Jairaj to work on the Lokayukta report on illegal mining met here on Thursday and decided to submit its report to the in a day or two.According to highly placed sources committee chairman K Jairaj had convened a meeting of the committee and discussed about submission of the report to the government.As many as 617 civil servants including in the ranks of IAS, IPS, IFS officers were indicted by the previous Karnataka Lokayukta apart from former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa and four other ministers.The state government had referred the report to take its call on the illegal mining report to a committee to recommend actions to be initiated on the tainted civil servants whose names were mentioned in the voluminous Lokayukta report which was submitted to the government in July this year by former Lokayukta N Santosh Hegde.The committee which had reviewed the report had sought an explanation from those officials whose names are figured in the report and recorded their views. It had also recommended the state government to transfer the officials concerned in connection with the illegal mining.The Lokayukta in its report submitted to the state government has estimated that the state exchequer had suffered a revenue loss of over Rs 16,000 crore owing to unabated illegal mining in Bellary, Chitradurga and Tumkur districts.
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