In March 2012, a young police officer in Morena stood in front of a tractor carrying illegally mined stone and signalled the driver to stop. The driver drove over him and killed him.
On 8th April 2026, in the same district, it happened again.
His name was Harkesh Gurjar.
He was a forest guard. Not an officer, not a gazetted post. A forest guard is the lowest rank in the forest department, the man who walks the beat.
That morning a team of 6 from the forest department left in a government vehicle at 5.30 in the morning. They had specific information that illegally mined sand was being moved out of the Chambal river.
At about 6 they reached a crossroads near Ranpur village in the Dimani area and stopped a tractor trolley loaded with sand.
The driver tried to reverse out and get away.
Harkesh Gurjar stepped forward and stood in front of the tractor to block it.
The driver accelerated into him. He died where he fell. The tractor drove off.
A closed circuit camera at a petrol pump nearby had recorded the tractor arriving minutes earlier. Police registered a case of murder against the driver and against the two men who jointly owned the tractor.
His brother in law was on that patrol. He watched it happen.
Harkesh Gurjar left behind his wife, a daughter aged 4 and a son aged 2.
Now the part that should be said out loud.
In several states, the family of a police officer killed on duty receives compensation of up to 1 crore rupees. For forest staff, depending on the state, it ranges from about 2 lakh to 20 lakh rupees. His family was given 3 lakh rupees by a welfare trust, along with a fixed deposit for his little girl.
Forest guards are sent against organised criminal networks with almost no equipment, no weapons, thin manpower and no real protection. They are the first people the sand mafia, the timber smugglers and the poachers have to get past.
Fourteen years separate the police officer in 2012 and the forest guard in 2026. Same district. Same river. Same method.
Nothing in between had changed.
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