 "IPS officer crushed to death by mining mafia in MP")
Gwalior: A young IPS officer, Narendra Kumar Singh, was crushed to death under the wheels of a tractor-trolley on Thursday allegedly by the mining mafia in Madhya Pradesh, when he tried to stop the vehicle carrying stones at Banmore town in the neighbouring Morena district.
The 2009 batch officer was posted at Banmore as Sub Divisional Officer of Police (SDOP).
The incident occurred this afternoon when the officer, who was on patrol in his official jeep, noticed a tractor-trolley loaded with stones. He overtook it and signalled the driver to stop it, Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Chambal Range, DP Gupta told reporters here.
However, when the driver did not budge, he again overtook the vehicle, and this time stood in front of the vehicle to bring it to a halt. But the tractor driver, identified as Manoj Gurjar, instead of stopping the vehicle, speeded up and hit the 30-year-old officer, crushing him under the wheels.
Following the incident, the officer was rushed to a hospital here, where he was declared brought dead, the DIG said, adding prima facie it appears that the mining mafia active in the area is behind the incident.
Kumar was posted at Banmore since last one month and during his brief tenure he had taken on the mining mafia head-on by seizing a number of trucks and tractors engaged in illegal mining in the area, sources said.
Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Uma Shankar Gupta and the State’s Director General of Police (DGP) Nandan Dube have rushed to Gwalior following the incident.
Leader of Opposition in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly, Ajay Singh, alleged the manner in which the IPS officer was killed indicated how bad the law and order situation in the state was. “One can imagine the law and order situation in a state where people are so emboldened that they can think of killing an IPS officer,” he said in a statement here.
Congress had since long speaking about illegal mining in the state but the BJP government had not done anything to control it, he alleged.
PTI
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