Young IPS officer crushed to death by mining mafia

Bhopal, March 8: A young Indian Police Service officer was crushed to death in the Morena district of Madhya Pradesh, police said on Thursday.

Indian Police Service officer Narendra Kumar was crushed to death in the Morena district of Madhya Pradesh on Thursday. Kumar, sub-divisional police officer of Bamor, was trying to stop a tractor loaded with illegally-quarried stones. PTI File PhotoNarendra Kumar, sub-divisional police officer of Bamor in Morena district, was trying to stop a tractor loaded with illegally-quarried stones Thursday afternoon.

"But instead of stopping, the driver ran over him. Kumar was rushed to hospital but died on the way," DIG (Chambal), D P Gupta told IANS.

Kumar was a 2009 batch IPS officer and was on probation. His wife Madhurani Tewatia, an Indian Administrative Services (IAS) officer, is also posted in Madhya Pradesh but is presently on maternity leave in Delhi.

The tractor driver has been arrested.