Morena : A group of sand mafia fired bullets with rifles on the team members of forest department, who had gone to count the aquatic animals in Chambal River near here on Thursday. When the five-member team of forest department reached at the banks of river, suddenly the sand mafia group-members attacked on them with the rifles and fired bullets.
Anyhow, the team members of forest department saved their lives, reached at the nearby police station of Saraichhola, and lodged the police complaint. After that, a joint team of district police and forest department reached at the spot and raided at the nearby village in search of sand mafia, but no one could be arrested.
According to sources, a five-member team of district forest department reached at the Gayapura-Barwasin Ghat of Chambal River under Sarai Chhola police station on Thursday noon to count the aquatic animals of the river, when the team members were busy in their work, suddenly some sand mafia people started to fire bullets on them. The source said that the sand mafia people had been doing illegal mining of river sand, when the forest department team reached there. The sources said that some influential local political leaders are giving patronage to these sand mafia people due to that local administrative authorities could not be able to control them.