A man was injured when Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel fired at him after coming under attack while trying to prevent theft at Korba’s Gevra mines in Chhattisgarh, police said on Saturday. The incident occurred on Friday night but was reported on Saturday.
Additional Superintendent of Police (Korba) Kirtan Rathore said a CISF team saw two vehicles without registration plates venturing into the open cast mine.
The CISF personnel asked the truck driver to stop but he began to drive away, triggering a chase by the security forces. Suddenly, another truck came from behind and hit the CISF vehicle, the police said.
CISF Sub-Inspector Uday Kumar first fired in the air. But when the unidentified men attacked the CISF team with rods, Kumar and CISF Constable Ankit Raj fired at them, injuring one man later identified as Salik Ram Gond (32). The others escaped.
Gond was admitted to Apollo Hospital in Bilaspur and his condition was said to be stable. When police questioned Gond, he accepted his involvement in the case.