CURATED BY – BHAGWAN DAS BERAGI | CITYCHIEFNEWS

Shajapur, Stone pelting broke out between the mining department team and the villagers in Mohammadpur Machhnai village of Kalapipal tehsil of Shajapur district. The officials of the department had come here to take action along with the people of the private company which had taken the contract for mineral excavation in Shajapur district. A villager has been injured in the incident. Government vehicles were also damaged in stone pelting by villagers. This stone pelting took place at around 1 pm on Thursday afternoon between the team of administrative officials who had gone to stop the illegal excavation and the illegal excavators from the Kanjar community.

It is said that Shajapur District Mineral Officer Arif Khan along with additional reserve force from the police line had reached the river area near Mohammadpur Machhnai to seize the Poklane machine on the information of illegal excavation. Where as soon as the Mineral Department staff reached here, the villagers started making noise. He said that the officers along with private goons of the contractor have come to forcibly seize the closed Poklane machine. People engaged in illegal excavation started pelting stones. The mining officer's car was damaged in this stone pelting. After this the villagers made videos of the incident. In the video, villagers are seen registering their protest. A youth from Kanjar community also suffered serious injury on his eye in the stone pelting between the two sides. The officers do not even have the name of the injured yet.

Officers had arrived to take action without any information

On information, Shujalpur in-charge SDM Satyendra Kumar Singh, SDOP Pintu Kumar Baghel, Kala Peepal police station in-charge Jitendra Verma and staff and additional police forces have also been sent to the village. It is said that the team of Mineral Department had reached here to take action without informing the local administrative staff and police.
Villagers pelted government vehicles with sticks
The villagers alleged that the officials who had come to confiscate the machine standing in the field, terming it as illegal mining, were not ready to listen. There was a dispute regarding this. After this the villagers became angry and pelted stones at the officials. During this time, the villagers also attacked the vehicles of the officers with batons, from where the officers could barely escape to save their lives.
Video of attack on mining team surfaced
A video of the attack on the mining team by the villagers has also surfaced in which the villagers are seen running and beating the officers and team of the mining team and vandalizing the vehicles. An injured villager is also seen in the video. As soon as the information about the attack on the mining team was received, SDM Satyendra Kumar Singh, SDOP Pintukumar Baghel, Kalapeepal police station in-charge Jitendra Verma and the staff and additional police forces were also sent to the village.