How Shivraj Singh Chouhan aided minister Sanjay Pathak's mining business

Chouhan reversed his own decision to help Pathak, who had switched from Congress to BJP in 2014

In 2011, Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan ordered a 53-hectare iron ore mine in Sehora, Jabalpur to be classified as forestland. The mine belonged to mining baron and Congress MLA Sanjay Pathak. The order meant Pathak could not start mining until he secured an additional, arduous and time-consuming statutory forest clearance from the Union government. This clearance could come through only with the state government’s recommendations to the Centre.

Pathak filed a case in the Jabalpur High Court against the order the same year.  

But, even as the case continued in the court, in 2014 Pathak left