Mining guard ‘attacked’ , 2 booked

Tribune News Service

Ambala, July 14

The police have booked two men for allegedly assaulting members of a special enforcement team (SET) of the Mining and Geology Department in Shahzadpur last evening.

In his complaint to the police, Roshan Lal, mining guard posted in Ambala Cantonment, said following a tip-off on illegal mining, he, along with his team, reached the spot near the Begna river at Bari Bassi village. The team found a tractor-trailer laden with sand and a loaded trailer there. Two men, identified as Vijay of Jangu Majra village and Shivam of Shahzadpur, who claimed to be the owners of the vehicles, were standing there.

“The department has not authorised any company for carrying out mining in the Begna river. We seized the vehicle and the trailers and I sat with Vijay on the tractor, and used a private tractor for pulling the another trailer to the police station. After driving around 200-metre, several local people gathered there and they started threatening us.

“Vijay and Shivam threatened us with dire consequences and started pushing us. They managed to steal the impounded tractor-trailer while the other trailer was taken to the Shahzadpur police station,” he added.

A case has been registered against the two under sections 186, 189, 332, 353, 379A, 506 and 34 of the IPC.

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