On Sunday, a 38-year-old constable, Dharmendra Singh Chauhan, was killed when he tried to stop a truck carrying illegally mined sand in the Noorabad area of Madhya Pradesh's Morena district.
The state government has announced a compensation to his bereaved family which includes Rs 11 lakh, salary for his entire period of service, a government job and education to his children. But this compensation is little consolation for the deceased constable's 28-year-old wife Mala Devi.
Pooran Singh, Dharmendra Chauhan's father-in-law of told NDTV, "Why only my son-in-law died? Why did his colleagues not help him? How did the driver escape? More than the compensation, we want answers to these questions from the state government."
Sub-Inspector SD Mishra of Noorabad police station says, "We were going to Dhanela. On the way, a dumper was parked which, on seeing us, started reversing. I ordered my men to catch them. Dharmendra was the first to rush. He tried to stop the truck but it toppled on one side crushing him. We were still 40 metres away from him. By the time we reached, the driver escaped."
This incident has brought back the memories of IPS officer Narendra Kumar being crushed by a tractor laden with illegally mined stone in 2012.
An illegal miner on condition of anonymity told NDTV," There are middlemen representing the officials who check illegal mining. We pay them Rs 500 per trolley and they allow us to take the illegally mined sand. People who do not pay to the middlemen are fined. Since a police official has died, the middleman has asked to stop work for 15-20 days."
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