The Centre today suspended environment clearances of all 93 mining leases in Goa pending verification of documents in the wake of the Shah Commission pointing out that permission was given based on wrong facts.

The mine owners will have to submit their documents which are required for getting the environment clearances, Minister of Environment and Forest Jayanti Natarajan told reporters here.

Justice M B Shah Commission, in its report on Goa's illegal mining, had also pointed out that the ECs were given based on the wrong facts.

Natarajan said the ECs were given on the wrong facts submitted by the state government, which were not properly verified by the MoEF officials.

She said she will go into every aspect of the ECs granted and if any of the official is found guilty, action would be taken against him.

"We will see that he is punished according to the law."

Two days after the tabling of the Shah Commission report on Goa's illegal mining in Parliament on September 7, the state government suspended all mining leases and asked mine owners to approach the Directorate of Mines and Geology with proper documents.

According to Natarajan, the action by the Manohar Parrikar government was a "complete whitewash" and a "fraud" on the people.

"He (Parrikar) is trying to fool and whitewash by pretending he is taking action. Under which act has he suspended the permissions for all the 93 mining leases," she asked.

Referring to Parrikar's statement that FIR would be filed against former Congress chief ministers Pratapsingh Rane and Digambar Kamat, she alleged that the chief minister was involved in "political witch hunting".

She also claimed that the Justice Shah Commission during its inquiry had not heard MoEF.

"Although Shah commission has referred to MoEF in its report, we were never heard. Therefore it was not possible for us to present our fact before the commission," she added.