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Forest officer crushed to death by mining mafia in Madhya Pradesh

| Friday | 7th September, 2018

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.

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. 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. Kushwah got crushed under the wheels as he tried to stop the tractor. The incident has reportedly been captured on a CCTV. Police have registered a case and are trying to arrest the accused.Illegal mining of stones and stone slabs is rampant in both Morena and Chambal districts bordering Uttar Pradesh IPS Narendra Kumar was killed while trying to stop a tractor trolley ferrying illegally mined stone in Morena district in 2012. 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.

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