Stone mafia attacked a joint team of forest and police Department trying to seize a Hyva truck loaded with illegally mined stones in broad day light near the Panchrukhi check post of forest Department situated in Barkattha block of the district here on Thursday.
In this incident 8 persons including the Forest Range Officer of Barhi Gopal Prasad and ASI of Barkattha police station Rajmuni Singh got injured.
As per information the joint team of forest and police tried to stop the Hyva truck near the check post then suddenly 15-20 men reached there and started pelting stones on the joint team, in which with the Ranger, ASI and constables Surendra Baitha, Omnarayan Pandey, Rajmani Das, Ajay Kumar, Vibhutinath Pandey and Rajeswar Khairwar got injured.
The mafia men who had loaded the stone from an illegal mine with the help of a JCB fled away from the spot taking the JCB with them.
The team members were then brought to Barkattha primary health center from where they were sent to Barhi hospital after preliminary treatment.
According to ranger Gopal Prasad the hyva and JCB was of Mahadev Yadav and his driver Mukesh Singh was leading the men who attacked on them.