Bhopal: Sand mafia crushed an assistant sub-inspector (ASI) under a tractor’s wheels when he tried to stop it in MP’s Shahdol late Saturday night.
Just six months ago, a patwari was killed in a similar attack less than 20km away in the same district.
The slain cop, 37-year-old Mahendra Bagri, was a father of two. He was a native of Singhpur in Satna and was posted at Beohari
police
station, 560km from Bhopal.
The
tractor driver
and an accomplice were arrested, reports Amarjeet Singh.
Shahdol SP Kumar Prateek said ASI Bagri had gone with two constables to execute an arrest warrant in Badoli village. This region, around 100km north of Shahdol, is notorious for
illegal sand
mining and there are frequent run-ins between govt officials and gangsters.
Pursued by police, the tractor driver and an accomplice jumped off the moving vehicle and tried to run away.
