Janjivan Bureau / Gurugram : Tawdu DSP Surender Singh was on Tuesday killed by a dumper driver for intercepting him and checking his papers.
Singh, along with his team, had gone to raid illegal mining on Aravali hills in Pachgaon area near Tauru.
It was around 11.50am that the DSP, accompanied by two policemen, a driver and a gunman, spotted a suspicious dumper and signalled it to stop.
He asked the driver for the papers, but he sped and tried to run the men over. The driver and the gunman jumped to save their lives, but the DSP was hit.
He was rushed to the hospital where the doctors declared him brought dead.
The Nuh police are looking for the accused.
Further details are awaited as Nuh SP Varun Singla is yet to make a statement.
Nuh district is notorious for attack on cops by the mining mafia. On an average, 50 such complaints have been registered every year since 2015.
According to the police, Singh was recruited as assistant-sub inspector in Haryana Police in 1994. He was currently posted as DSP, Tauru, and was to retire in four months.
He was a native of Sarangpur village in Hisar and currently lived with his family in Kurukshetra.
A senior police official of the Nuh police said teams were conducting raids to nab the dumper driver while an FIR had been registered.
