Mafia rules the roost in MP

2017

FEBRUARY 21: Mining mafia attacks a joint team of forest officials and police in Tikamgarh district.

JULY 31: BJP MLA RD Prajapati from Chhatarpur gets calls from sand mining mafia, threatening to shoot him dead.

2016

DECEMBER 11: A 50-year-old farmer allegedly killed by illegal miners for protesting against their activities of mining boulders and rubble from his agricultural land in Chhatarpur district.

OCTOBER 16: Exchange of fire in a sand mining area of Bhind district left a labourer injured.

OCTOBER 16: Sand mafia gives death threat to a police officer after he seizes tractor used in illegal sand mining in Singrauli district.

JUNE 1: Sub-divisional magistrate of Raisen district DK Singh is gheraoed by the mining mafia in Begumganj area when he tries to stop illegal mining of murram soil.

APRIL 2: Mining mafia attacks a forest guard in Shivpuri district to avenge action taken against them two years ago for illegal transportation of mined stone.

MARCH 16: SDM of Burhanpur KR Badole who tried to stop illegal sand mining in Tapti river, is attacked by sand mafia who according to him also tried to drown his boat.

MARCH 6: A forest guard is crushed to death in Gwalior while chasing illegal sand miners when a tractor-trolley loaded with the loot falls on him.

MARCH 6: In Morena district, a 14-year-boy is killed in a gunfire between two warring groups over control of illegal sand mining through Jaur-Khurd area after excavation from Chambal.

MARCH 20: Sand mafia tries to mow down two forest officials in Tikamgarh