Man alleged to have run over & killed Agra cop arrested with 8 other co-accused

AGRA: Police in UP’s Agra district have arrested a man who is alleged to have run over and killed a 24-year-old police constable after he tried to stop his tractor-trolley laden with illegally-mined river sand on Sunday near UP-Rajasthan border. Apart from the main accused, Prakash, eight other men allegedly involved in illegal sand mining and part of his gang were also arrested from different parts of the district on Wednesday.
District police are now mulling invoking stringent Gangster Act against them.
Constable Sonu Chaudhary was crushed to death in Agra’s Kheragarh region on Sunday morning under the wheels of the tractor illegally transporting sand into Agra from neighboring Rajasthan. SP rural (west), Agra, Ravi Kumar said that all the accused are suspected to have criminal records, and they are residents of Rajasthan.
“One of the arrested accused had allegedly attacked and injured a policeman, Nishamak Tyagi, about a year ago when he had tried to stop him from smuggling illegally mined sand,” he added.
The main accused, Prakash, was arrested near Lalpura village of Agra after a tip-off. He was riding a motorcycle with two others when a police team signaled him to stop near a check-post. Police said that the accused opened fire at them in a bid to flee. Two of them succeeded, but Prakash was caught. A resident of Rajasthan’s Dholpur district, Prakash later told police that he was with two other men, Babloo and Anoop, at the time of the crime. Both the accused are on the run and will be arrested soon, police said.
The eight other accused were arrested from Kheragarh, Jagner and Iradatnagar areas of the district in joint operations of police.