PATNA: A Bihar police sub-inspector who led a team that set up a barricade to intercept a tractor carrying illegally mined sand was allegedly mowed down by the vehicle on Tuesday in Ropawel village of Jamui district, police said. Illegal sand and stone mining is a growing menace in Bihar’s Lakhisarai-Nawada border, of which Jamui is a part. Constable Ramesh …
The Meghalaya high court on Monday sought to know why contempt proceedings should not be initiated against both the chief secretary and the director general of police of the state for their apparent inaction and failure to check illegal coal mining operations and transportation in the State. The full bench consisting of chief justice Sanjib Bannerjee and justice HS Thangkhiew …
A Rajasthan police constable was thrashed by half-a-dozen men with sticks and iron rods in the Kota district for stopping a tractor trolley loaded with illegally-mined sand gravel late on Sunday, police said. Police said the driver of the tractor trolley loaded with illegally mined sand called his associates after the constable stopped him Constable Ram Chandra saw the tractor …
Madhya Pradesh police has booked nine forest department officials for alleged murder following the death of a villager in Morena district during an operation against illegally mined sand in the district, said police. HT-Photo Police said two eyewitnesses alleged that one Mahaveer Singh Tomar, a 45-years old resident of Amol Pura village, was beaten up and shot dead by forest …