In an incident expressive of the brazenness of the sand mafia in Kerala, a sub-inspector of police was on Saturday pushed out of a running truck used for smuggling sand in Kannur district in an alleged murder attempt The official, KN Rajan (52) of the Pariyaram police station in Kannur, was admitted to a Hospital in a critical condition.
The incident took place at about 5.30 am Saturday at Thiruvattoor in Pariyaram. The sub-inspector, who was on patrol duty along with another policeman on a motorbike, had climbed into the cabin of the running truck in which sand was being smuggled but the driver accelerated instead of stopping it to facilitate inspection.