DW BUREAU / CHANDIGARH Punjab Police on Monday registered the first information report (FIR) against Kudratdeep Singh alias Lovie and his aide Bhupinder Singh alias Honey for carrying out illegal mining in the area of Malikpur mining site in year 2017, police said. After registering the FIR, the Police have also sent notice to Bhupinder alias Honey to join the investigations in this case, while, Kudratdeep, who is in Kapurthala Jail, will be brought on production warrant on Tuesday, according to police. The development came two months after the Enforcement Directorate in its letter to the SSP SBS Nagar had shared information regarding 73 weightment slips (dated 10.11.2017) besides other details of the output of sand more than reported to the mining department from illegal mining at Malikpur sand mining site recovered during the course of searches, according to an official release. Pertinently, in the end of the year 2021, the Directorate of Enforcement Jalandhar conducted searches at the premises of Bhupinder Singh alias Honey and Kudratdeep Singh alias Lovie. The ED had then recovered various indiscriminating documents, digital devicesetc, the release said. (editor@dailyworld.in)