India
Three held for murder of forest guard who tried to stop sand mafia tractor; two linked to BJP
Brief
The prime accused’s arrest comes on a day when the Supreme Court slammed the governments Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan over the rampant illegal sand mining in the National Chambal Gharial Sanctuary and nearby regions
All three accused in connection with the murder of a forest guard in Madhya Pradesh’s Morena district have been arrested, with the prime accused, the driver of a tractor-trolley carrying illegally mined sand, being nabbed from Gujarat’s Ahmedabad on Monday (April 13, 2026), police officers said.
Harkesh Gurjar, a forest guard, was allegedly run over by a tractor belonging to local sand mafia when a forest department team tried to stop it in the early hours of April 8.
