he Supreme Court today ordered a CBI probe into illegal extraction of 50.7 lakh metric tonnes of iron ore in 17 months from Karnataka forests. The Apex Court also asked the state government how its agencies were unaware of the illicit mining on a massive scale going on in the state. The court directed the agency to register an FIR and investigate as to how huge amount of iron ore seized by the forest department were allowed to be exported to various foreign companies.