Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Friday ordered a judicial probe into the murder of IPS officer Narendra Kumar Singh, who was crushed to death allegedly by a member of the mining mafia in Morena district.
“We salute the young IPS officer for his daredevilry in checking illegal mining. We have ordered a judicial probe into the incident,” Mr. Chouhan told reporters after reviewing the matter with chief secretary Avni Vaish and DGP Nandan Dubey at the Secretariat.
He said the government was dealing with illegal mining in the state in a tough manner and added that the young officer was also doing the same as part of the government stand.
“We stand by his family in this hour of grief and whatever help is needed would be given to them,” he said.
The judicial probe will reveal all the facts behind the incident, he added.
Mr. Chouhan further said that the opposition Congress should refrain from politicising the issue.
By talking about illegal mining at this juncture, the Congress is giving a bad name to the state, he added.
‘Murder not pre-planned’
Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG), Chambal Range, D.P. Gupta said the murder of the IPS officer does not appear “pre-planned” at this stage.
No mobile phone has been recovered from Manoj Gurjar, the driver of the tractor-trolley under which the 30-year-old IPS officer was crushed to death at Banmore in Morena district yesterday, he said.
Still, police are trying to trace the mobile phone, if any, on which Manoj might have received instructions to kill the officer, Mr. Gupta said.
The 2009-batch officer was posted at Banmore as Sub Divisional Officer of Police (SDOP) a month ago and had taken on the mining mafia by seizing number of trucks and tractors engaged in illegal quarrying.
Narrating the sequence of events of the crime, the DIG said the tractor-trolley carrying boulders was stopped by the officer. However, minutes after it came to a halt, the driver Manoj Gurjar restarted it even as Singh clung on to it.
Mr. Gupta further said that Manoj then drove the tractor in such a way that the officer lost his grip and came under one of the wheels of the vehicle.
“After this, the trolley carrying stones tipped over him and he was crushed under it,” he said.
The DIG dismissed the reports of political pressure, saying, “There is no question of doing so as we have lost a young and dynamic member of our family.”
Meanwhile, Singh’s father Keshav Singh, who spoke from his native village in Uttar Pradesh, claimed that his son used to tell him that although he wanted to do a lot of work, he did not receive desired cooperation from police officers.
The officer was cremated at his native village, 50 km from Mathura, with full State honours in the presence of thousands of mourners.
A shameless DIG making statements like this, shows at what level of development Madhya Pradesh is at-But again you cannot blame the DIG alone as he will also be running for his life for all you know he could be next under the wheels of the tractor if he goes against the mining mafia criminals. So what kind of a leader India needs to be reformed? If not a Joseph Stalin but a Valdimir Putin to set the house right-definately not a Mahatma Gandhi I don't think criminals understand the language he spoke.
where were these congress people when illegal mining was going on. are they not supporting illegal mining,if they were in ruling what would have they done. corruption and illegal activities has to be fought by all political parties
Either be bribed or be killed. Compromise and let things be.
A lose-lose predicament by all accounts.
How is honesty and justice to be upheld in a country where the democratically elected representatives of the people need armed bodyguards paid by the people for their protection against the people. An honest politician does not need to be protected from the people. My heartfelt condolences to the bereaved relatives, to honesty, justice and democracy.
This is such a tragedy, and honest officer died doing his duty. I hope the culprits are brought to justice, not just the driver.
our motherland has lost a valiant son. I shall remember him as Shaheed Narendra Kumar Singh. He died fighting the cause of every Indian. He dies fighting my cause. Looters and plunderers are looting the natural resources of our states our country (These resources belong to the pople of India and should be properly utilized by the government for the benefit of the people). And still we claim plunderers came from North and the West to loot India. >Nah, We have plunderers here in India, residing within our society.
It is an another Human Rights violation taken placed on an IPS officer,
then how could we consider that every civilians are dwelling safely. On
March 06/03/2012, a little girl was raped and murdered by two caste
Hindu boys at nagapattinam, one is 16 and other one is 19 in which one
boy was known as a child, how could we decide that boy as a child by his
deed. Every Human Rights Defenders and organisations and general public
should raise their voice against violations and should accelerate their
actions towards Social Justice.
All these probes 'without a time frame and proper reference to crimes to be investigated' are an eye wash. In the case of Sonewane an upright IAS officer burnt alive by the oil mafia, he and his family will never get justice because the culprits with the help of powerful politician had already made FIRs making the IAS officer guilty of corrupt practices and as as partner in crime who takes money to allow oil theft. In the murder of IPS officer Narendra Kumar Singh, the police had not arrested the mine owner and the contractor owning the tractor. Since all these crimes involves huge money the politicians will not allow the real culprits to get exposed. That is the reason they had dared to comit the murder of the IPS officer. God only can save the country!
I am so surprised by seeing the level of aggression and inhumanity in such people, what are they afraid of by which we can prevent such incidents?? This is so scary. What are the strategies of administrators, what was actually running in tractor driver's mind by killing the officer..its just animal instict. If we can not control such things, whole society will get polluted slowly.
WHY THE YOUNG TALENT DON'T WANT TO WORK FOR THEIR COUNTRY : This is one of the bitter example why the new generation don't want to serve for their country or state .There is no security for their family for their future .if someone want to really serve for nation He or She has to gambled with his or her life to deal with such kind of mafias. If you are lucky you will be most probably transferred to some other division or you will have to take bribe. If both are not case then you will be next "Narendra Kumar" after death you will be rewarded by medal which your children will remember with tears.
My deepest heartfelt condolence goes out to his entire family and we hope his family gets courage and strength to withstand through this difficult time.
With respects to the demised officer i would like to mention the following. Officers and policemen should never try to apprehend singlehanded . Having noticed a covert activity they photograph it and call for reinforcements . You never know how the criminal will behave as it happened in the instant case.
This applies to traffic cops also who try to be brave and fling across oncoming vehicles to stop them.One in a thousand may not stop even accidentaly. In fact bus city bus drivers never slow or stop if any individual is in the line movement since they assume the person will look after himself.
And this calls for proper training. No bravado. In case if it is fatal as in the instant case more is lost.
The ordering of a Judicial Probe into the murder of valiant Young officer Narendra is yet another step in stalling the entire probe. This judicial probe will be another eye wash. As usual the judicial probe will extend for a year or so and by the time the results of the probe will come most of the public would have long forgotten the
supreme sacrifice of veer Narendra. The people of this country must awaken to the reality that judicial probe or a magisterial inquiry is ordered as a fire fighting exercise for immediate satisfaction of the people. What is required is a probe by a competent organisation like CBI with the specific direction to submit report/ chargesheet within a specified period of 35 days.
100% MP ministers and senior police offial involved and it was preplanned, other wise it will not be possible a senior officer killed in such way. I salute him for his dare and honesty of work for country. Rajveer
Murder is not preplanned!! well how come a small tractor driver all of
sudden think that he can overrun IPS officer who has bulb on top of
his car and 3 lions on his collar.Somehow that officer was caught
lonely, somehow the tractor driver took the courage on self, somehow
the officer who is more intelligent than 99% of population could not
run or detect threat of approaching vehicle,The officer could have
easily outrun tractor, instead he choose not to, which means the
driver would have stopped before so many times when asked for.Which
again means this was heavily pre planned.Somehow our DG does not think
like that.He thinks our IPS officer stood still when a vehicle was
approaching him like a rabbit.That is why we need Janlokpal to be
independent of politicians and CBI.There is no fear of law,lawless
people are not punished.Jai Janlokpal
This is something which is intolerable.If police officers are not safe
from these mining mafia then how can commons?
C.M. should take necessary steps against mafia or else resign.The
culprit should be given capital punishment.
Well i am sorry for the grieved family
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