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The sand mining mafia is active in almost all MP districts, destroying river beds that remains dry in the winter and peak summer months. Many major rivers are facing threat due to rampant illegal mining of sand in the state. BHOPAL: A 40-year-old deputy ranger was crushed to death by sand mining mafia in Morena district of Madhya Pradesh on Friday morning.This is the place where a young IPS officer, Narendra Kumar, was killed in March 2012, while trying to check illegal mining.The deceased has been identified as Subedar Singh Kushwah. Kushwah got crushed under the wheels as he tried to stop the tractor. He was posted at the Ghorna forest chowki under civil line police station area, located 5 km from the Morena district headquarters.Sources say he was on duty along with four other employees of the forest department when he spotted tractors ferrying illegally mined sand..