Madhya Pradesh forest officers open hearth throughout anti-sand mining ops, one killed

A forty five-year-old man in Madhya Pradesh’s Morena district was allegedly shot lifeless on Sunday by a Forest Department staff throughout an operation in opposition to unlawful sand mining.
Forest officers mentioned the staff was chasing a tractor with unlawful sand miners at Amol Pura village when native residents tried to grab their weapons. During the melee, Mahavir Singh, the deceased, was unintentionally shot.
However, Singh’s household has claimed that he was shot by the forest staff after he informed the officers to not hearth their weapons within the village. “My father stopped the officials warning them to not fire around the village as it might hurt someone after which Pramod Singh Tomar abused and then shot my father it was followed by Raghuvendra Singh Chouhan who also fired on him along with five others,” Singh’s son Rahul mentioned in his grievance.
The incident triggered a law-and-order scenario in Amol Pura, with villagers blocking the nationwide freeway for shut to 3 hours and demanding motion in opposition to the forest staff.

Based on Rahul’s grievance, an FIR was registered on the Nagra police station in opposition to 9 forest officers.
Morena SP Lalit Shakyawar informed The Indian Express, “We controlled the situation and an FIR has been registered based on the complaint against nine forest officials. The matter is being investigated.”