Two recent and shocking alleged murders said to have been carried out by the sand mafia. An IPS officer was killed about 12 days ago allegedly by the mining mafia in Madhya Pradesh. Quickly following that a man died on March 11 in Tamil Nadu when he tried to stop a lorry carrying illegally quarried sand from a river. It seems like the sand mining activity is not just illegally carried out, but the sand mafia are also growing more and more brazen by the day. Here's an extensive study carried out by NewsX cutting across party lines and across eight states, looking into the facts that empower and allow the Sand Mafia to operate. NewsX travelled to eight different states of Karnataka, Punjab. Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Bihar. These states have been previously too flagged off being a hotbed of illegal sand mining activity. NewsX has made startling discoveries in the process.

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