GWALIOR: A young IPS officer, Narendra Kumar Singh, was crushed to death under the wheels of a tractor-trolley today allegedly rpt allegedly by the mining mafia in Madhya Pradesh, when he tried stopping the vehicle carrying stones at Banmore town in neighbouring Morena district.
The 2009 batch officer was posted at Banmore as Sub Divisional Officer of Police (SDOP).The incident occurred this afternoon when the officer who was on patrol in his official jeep noticed a tractor-trolley loaded with stones following which he overtook it and signalled the driver to stop it, Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Chambal Range, DP Gupta told reporters here.However, when the driver did not budge, he again crossed it and this time stood in front of the vehicle in order to bring it to a halt on the spot.But the tractor driver identified as Manoj Gurjar instead of stopping the vehicle, speeded and hit the 30-year-old officer, crushing him under the wheels.Following the incident, the officer was rushed to a hospital here, where he was declared brought dead, the DIG said adding prima facie it appears that the mining mafia active in the area is behind the incident.Gurjar has been arrested and a case has been registered under section 302 of the IPC against them.The deceased cop's wife, Madhurani Tewatia is an IAS officer, posted in Gwalior and currently on maternity leave.Kumar was posted at Banmore since last one month and during his brief tenure he had taken on the mining mafia head-on by seizing number of trucks and tractors engaged in illegal mining in the area, the sources said.Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Uma Shankar Gupta and the State's Director General of Police (DGP) Nandan Dube have rushed to Gwalior following the incident.Leader of Opposition in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly, Ajay Singh, alleged the manner in which the IPS officer was killed indicated how bad the law and order situation was."One can imagine the law and order situation in a state where people are so emboldened that they can think of killing an IPS officer," he said in a statement here.Congress had since long speaking about illegal mining in the state but the BJP government had not done anything to control it, he alleged. 
LONDON: Cricket again came under a cloud as the Sunday Times, London, carried out a sting operation on a Delhi-based bookie who claimed last year's World Cup semifinal between India and Pakistan at Mohali was rigged.
The man, identified as Vicky Seth and described as "one of Delhi's most influential bookmakers", made a slew of "revelations" during a drinking session with an undercover Sunday Times reporter, who videotaped the conversation. The reporter had in 2010 exposed three Pakistani cricketers, who were later convicted, for indulging in "spot-fixing" in the News of the World newspaper.
India had won the semifinal match in which the number of catches dropped by the Pakistan team had become a talking point. However, the International Cricket Council denied to TOI that it was launching an inquiry into these claims although it could not be ruled out that there was an ongoing probe into some of the issues raised by the bookie.
The report quoted Seth as saying a Bollywood actress, who was not named, was used by bookies as a honeytrap to tempt county cricketers into corruption. The report asserted: "The ICC is aware of the activities of an actress, suspected of attempting to subvert players." The ICC declined comment.
The bookie also claimed that "big money" is to be made in Test matches and the Indian Premier League.
Asked to react, the head of media and communications at the ICC, Colin Gibson, said: "We don't comment on ICC's anti-corruption and security unit matters." He added the "spokesman" quoted by the UK's Sunday Times was neither him nor any of his colleagues.
Meanwhile, a source at the ICC pointed to the statement issued by Ravi Sawani, the ICC anti-corruption and security unit's chief investigator at the time, who denied there was anything suspicious about the Indo-Pak game and recorded that no investigation was needed or carried out. Sawani was last year credited with nailing the three Pakistani cricketers for spot-fixing and has since left ICC.
Seth is said to have boasted match-fixing "will always carry on in cricket". He said, "There is just so much money involved and it's easy to do as long as people don't talk".
Seth claimed "tens of thousands of pounds are on offer to fix matches". He reportedly told the paper that English county cricket was a growing market for fixing since the matches were low profile and were not being intensely monitored.
