A young IPS officer was crushed to death by the mining mafia in Madhya Pradesh's Morena district, over 450 km from here, on Thursday.
Narendra Kumar, 30, who was posted as a Sub-Divisional Police Officer at Banmore in Morena on probation, tried to stop a tractor carrying illegally quarried stones but the driver ran over him, DIG Chambal range D.P. Gupta was quoted in the press as saying.
Mr. Kumar was rushed to hospital but died on the way.
While he was a 2009 batch IPS officer, his wife is an Indian Administrative Service officer. She is also posted in Madhya Pradesh (Gwalior) but is on maternity leave currently.
The driver, identified as Manoj Gurjar, has been arrested under section 302 of the Indian Penal Code.
State Home Minister Uma Shankar Gupta along with DGP Nandan Dube rushed to Gwalior to take stock of the situation.
Mr. Kumar was posted to Morena recently and had started giving trouble to the powerful, politically-backed mining mafia in the region.
The officer had received information about illegally mined stones being carried in a tractor. The officer reached the spot and asked the driver to stop the vehicle but he ran over him. The driver has been arrested and the matter will be inquired into,” the Home Minister told journalists at a press conference.
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