Mining officer gets threat call from sand mafia

Kanpur: District mining officer of Etawah Subhash Singh Baghel was allegedly threatened with dire consequences by unidentified sand mafia after his team seized trucks carrying illegally mined sand near Chambal at the UP-MP border in Etawah district on the intervening night of Sunday and Monday.According to police, as per the complaint lodged by the district mining officer, “The caller threatened him saying....a lot of checking is being done by you at the border, and trucks are being seized daily, which is not right. If you do not stop checking, I will kill you and go to jail.” SSP Etawah Jai Prakash Singh said, “An FIR has been registered at the Civil Lines police station under relevant sections of Indian Penal Code, and the mobile phone number from which the threat call was made, has been put on surveillance. The accused will be arrested soon.”TNN