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Police arrest six for mining sand from cauvery bed

Trichy city police arrested six people out of the eight booked for indulging in illegal sand mining in Thiruverumbur, Kollidam and Kattuputhur areas in Trichy. Police said on Saturday that the arrested people claimed that they were transporting the sand from a point where they had stored it after mining from the river when the permission was given earlier. However, investigation revealed that they had mined the sand from the Cauvery riverbed.