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BHOPAL: 3 Madhya Pradesh police body of workers, together with a sub inspector, misplaced their lives in a gun struggle with animal poachers in Guna district of Madhya Pradesh on Friday-Saturday intervening evening.
The 3 police officers had been recognized as sub inspector Raj Kumar Jatav, head constable Neeraj Bhargava and constable Santram Meena. They had been killed in an trade of fireplace with seven-eight armed animal poachers at round 2.45 am within the Aron space. A motive force of the police car was once harm within the incident however is now mentioned to be out of risk.
One of the crucial poachers recognized as Naushad, who was once most likely injured within the retaliatory police firing, was once discovered useless in his local village Bidhoria, round 4 km from the spot of the come across within the morning. Later, within the night time, some other poacher recognized as Shahzad was once gunned down by means of the police in an come across within the dense Aron forests.
In keeping with the SP-Guna district Rajeev Mishra, 3 to 4 police events had been despatched to the spot, following details about the presence of animal poachers there. Seeing the police groups encompass them from all instructions, the animal poachers, who got here on 4 mobikes, attempted to escape by means of opening indiscriminate fireplace on police officers.
“The police officers additionally retaliated, however 3 of our body of workers misplaced their lives. The poachers controlled to escape together with a police provider rifle. Stays of poached blackbucks and a peacock had been seized from the spot,” Mishra mentioned.
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MP CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan chaired a high-level emergency assembly following the incident within the morning and then he introduced martyr standing for the 3 deceased police officers. He additional introduced Rs 1 crore each and every and a central authority task for each and every of the 3 bereaved households in Ashok Nagar, Guna and Sheopur districts.
The CM additionally ordered the quick removing of IG-Gwalior Zone Anil Sharma since he had reached the crime spot in Guna district overdue. Whilst Sharma has been posted as IG on the state PHQ in Bhopal, ADG-SAF D Srinivas Verna will probably be now posted as ADG-Gwalior Zone.
Importantly, that is in all probability the primary time that police officers were killed in MP in an operation in opposition to animal poachers.
In keeping with knowledgeable assets, the 200 km radius of Berasia (Bhopal) is infamous for the presence of the bushes mafia and for animal poaching (in particular poaching of blue bull Neelgai), however any such killing of police officers hasn’t ever took place previously.
The forests spanning from Berasia (Bhopal) to Lateri and Sironj in Vidisha and Aron in Guna are replete with blackbucks. Unusually, whilst the CM acted in opposition to the IG Gwalior Zone for being overdue in arriving on the spot, no motion was once taken in opposition to the SP-Guna and native DFO, who’re essentially accountable for striking a leash on animal poaching.
In the meantime, bulldozing of the homes (constructed by means of encroaching land) of the absconding accused in Bidhoria village has begun. No less than 4 out of the seven accused, together with the slain Naushad, belonged to a selected group dwelling in Bidhoria village.
A hunt is directly to nab the absconders.
Focused on the CM and his govt over the killing of the 3 police officers, the state Congress leader Kamal Nath took to Twitter, pronouncing that the federal government has didn’t take care of regulation and order within the state.
“What took place to the CM’s much-hyped announcement of burying the mafia below the bottom. Had it actually took place, then our courageous police officers shouldn’t have misplaced lives lately in opposition to the wooded area mafia,” Nath tweeted.
Chief of Opposition Dr Govind Singh demanded state house minister Narottam Mishra’s resignation.