Anantnag, Shopian seizures expose the illegal mining nexus   Nine seized vehicles, two FIRs and yet another official statement of “commitment” to act against illegal mining. The latest operation in Anantnag and Shopian yesterday, where police confiscated a JCB and eight tractors allegedly involved in illegal extraction from Sandran Nallah at Sadura and Rambiara Nallah in Shopian, reads, on paper, like a success story. But scratch the surface, and a harder question emerges: how long has this been going on, and who has looked the other way?