India, Oct. 20 -- On October 12, the High Court of Bombay at Goa quashed the Enforcement Directorate (ED)'s June 2014 case based on the 2012 Justice MB Shah Commission's findings of large-scale violations in iron ore mining. It was among the last cases related to the alleged irregularities that left the industry shuttered for more than a decade. A Goa Police Special Investigation Team (SIT) probed the matter. The ED probed the money laundering angle.

Three days after the Justice Shah Commission Report was tabled in Parliament in 2012, the Goa government ordered the suspension of mining operations, a mainstay of the state's economy dating back to the Portuguese colonial era. Mining remained halted until December 2022, when the state gover...